Special Issue "Optical Fibers as a Key Element of Distributed Sensor Systems"
Special Issue Editor
Interests: microwave photonics; fiber optic sensors; fiber bragg gratings; application of electro-optical modulators; lidars; transfer of optical technologies in microwave range; microwave resonant sensors; microwave high- and low-intensity technologies; double-frequency methods in sensors and telecommunications
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Optical fibers coated with suitable protective layers are well-suited to distributed fiber sensing systems (DFSS) based on Rayleigh, Raman, and Brillouin back-scattering in small cross-sectional spaces and have found successful use in a wide variety of applications including civil structures, transmission lines, railway, down-hole monitoring, and others. To improve overall system performance, many of these DFSS use multiple fibers. For example, DFSS use both single mode (SM) and multimode (MM) fibers for simultaneous measuring of several parameters such as temperature and strain. The measured parameters are affected by wavelength-dependent loss, caused by splices, stress on the optical fiber, fiber degradation in hydrogen environments, and radiation; this loss can also vary over time. As a compromise of SM and MM, the quasi-single mode operation in few mode fibers (FM) allows for larger input pump power before the establishment of detrimental effects induced by fiber nonlinearities due to the well-controlled effective fundamental mode area. Moreover, FM supports only a few spatial modes and the coupling between the fundamental mode and higher order modes can be largely suppressed with careful design. The performance of FM DFSS is mainly determined by the optical parameters of the used FM fibers. 2-mode and 4-mode FM fibers were designed and fabricated for DFSS, but units do not limit the number of modes. One more advanced single optical structure containing more than one core is multicore (MC) fibers with small-diameter sensing elements that provide a high-density waveguide count. Using these fibers solves the problem of conduit and/or installation cable congestion and eliminates fiber-to-fiber positional error, as each waveguide in the MC fiber is permanently fixed in its parallel configuration with respect to other waveguides in the MC fiber structure. These MC fibers are typically coated with acrylate materials that are unsuitable for applications with higher temperatures and harsh environments, such as may be encountered in many industrial sensing applications, but new coatings, for example, ETFE, are also very useful.
Thus, this Special Issue aims to attract both theoretical and practical works that deal with optical fibers as a key element of DFSS. Submissions on but not limited to basic technologies of modelling, design, fabrication, and utilization of optical fibers for different, including extremal, applications of DFSS; the effect of optical fibers’ characteristics on the performance of DFSS in general; and problems regarding the interconnections of different fiber types are welcomed for this Special Issue. This Issue also focuses on the fiber construction of the modern DFSS multiplexing of three main back-scattering mechanisms—Rayleigh, Raman, and Brillouin—in conjunction with fiber Bragg gratings written in SM, MM, FM, and MC fibers. Review articles that describe the current state of the art are also welcome.
Prof. Dr. Oleg G. Morozov
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Potential topics include but are not limited to the following for optical fibers applications in DFSS:
- SM fibers
- MM fibers
- FM fibers
- MC fibers
- Modelling
- Design
- Fabrication
- Utilization
- Rayleigh back-scattering
- Raman back-scattering
- Brillouin back-scattering
- Complex decisions
- Fiber Bragg gratings in DFSS
- Quasi-distributed fiber sensor systems
- Coatings
- Opto-mechanics of fibers
- Fibers for arctic applications
- Fibers for atom energetics applications
- Fibers for underwater applications
- Fibers for space applications
- Fibers for railway applications
- Fibers for high-voltage applications
- Technologies and means for optical fibers monitoring.
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Results of experimental research of bandwidth parameters of new-type silica laser-optimized optical fibers with 100 um core diameter
Authors: Anton V. Bourdine
Affiliation: OJSC «S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute»
Title: Fusing up of micro-lens over microstructured optical fiber end
Authors: Vladimir A. Burdin
Affiliation: Povolzhskiy State University of Telecommunications and Informatics
Title: Chiral microstructured optical fibers with hexagonal geometry
Authors: Konstantin V. Dukelskii
Affiliation: OJSC «S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute»
Title: NUMERICAL METHOD FOR COUPLED NONLINEAR SCHRÖDINGER EQUATIONS IN FEW MODE FIBER
Authors: Airat Zh. Sakhabutdinov
Affiliation: Kazan National Research Technical University
Title: A Novel Method Of Spectra Processing For Brillouin Optical Time Domain Reflectometry
Authors: 1*F.L. Barkov, 1Yu. A. Konstantinov, 1,2A.I. Krivosheyev
Affiliation: 1 Perm Federal Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Perm, Russia. 2 Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Perm, Russia.
Abstract: A new method of Brillouin spectra post-processing, which could be applied in modern distributed optical sensors: Brillouin optical time domain analyzers/reflectometers, has been demonstrated. It operates by means of the correlation analysis performed with special technique («backward-correlation»). It does not need any additional data for time or space averaging and operates with the single spectra only. We have simulated the method accuracy dependence on signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and other parameters. It is shown that new method produces better results at low SNRs than conventional technique, based on finding of Brillouin spectrum maximum, does. These results are in a good agreement with the experiment. Finally, we have estimated the performance of the new method for its application in Polarization-BOTDA set-up for a PM-fiber modal birefringence distributed study.
Title: Method of Acoustic Emission for Non-Destructive Testing of Optical Fiber Strength
Authors: Vladimir A. Andreev1, Vladimir A. Burdin1, Anton V. Bourdine1,2, Michael V. Dashkov1
Affiliation: 1 Department of Communication Lines, Povozhskiy State University of Telecommunications and Informatics, 23, Lev Tolstoy street, Samara 443010, Russia; [email protected] (V.A.A.); [email protected] (V.A.B.); [email protected] (M.V.D.) 2 JSC “Scientific Production Association State Optical Institute Named after Vavilov S.I.”, 36/1, Babushkin street, Saint Petersburg 192171, Russia; [email protected] (A.V.B.) * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +7-927-260-1799 (V.A.B.)
Abstract: The method for non-destructive testing of the optical fiber strength based on measurements of acoustic emission signals using tested optical fiber as an acoustic sensor was proposed in this paper. The basic provisions of the method implementation, description of the experimental setup and experimental results demonstrating the potential of the proposed method are represented. The results obtained in this work suggest that the proposed method can be promising for controlling the strength of optical fiber in a cable, including installed cable line. Keywords: acoustic emission; optical fiber; strength; microcrack; non-destructive testing; surface defect
Title: Fabrication and optical properties of optical fibers based aluminoborosilicate glasses doped with chromium
Authors: Alexey N. Abramov, Mikhail V. Yashkov, Oleg B. Smirnov, Alexey N. Guryanov, Alexey S. Raevskii, Alexander D. Plechovich, Alexander M. Kut
Affiliation: Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University
Abstract: Aluminoborosilicate fibers doped with chromium for the subsequent formation of a glass-ceramic core to create fiber lasers operating at a wavelength of up to 900 nm were obtained by the MCVD method. The dependences of the refractive index of aluminoborosilicate glass and the crystallization temperature of the mullite phase in the glass of the fiber core on the concentration of boron oxide are studied.