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APPARAUTS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING OPTICAL SIGNALS FROM TWO DELAY COILS TO INCREASE THE DYNAMIC RANGE OF A SAGNAC-BASED FIBER OPTIC SENSOR ARRAY
APPARAUTS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING OPTICAL SIGNALS FROM TWO DELAY COILS TO INCREASE THE DYNAMIC RANGE OF A SAGNAC-BASED FIBER OPTIC SENSOR ARRAY
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机译:用于从两个延迟线圈处理光学信号以增加基于SAGNAC的光纤传感器阵列的动态范围的设备和方法
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A folded Sagnac fiber optic sensor array uses a common delay path to reduce distributed pickup in downlead fibers. The sensor array is used to detect perturbations (e.g., acoustic waves in water). By basing the folded Sagnac sensor array on operating principles similar to the Sagnac interferometer the sensor array has a stable bias point, has reduced phase noise, and allows a broadband signal source to be used rather than requiring a more expensive narrowline laser. A large number of sensors can be multiplexed into the architecture of the sensor array. In one particularly preferred embodiment, the sensor array is configured with couplers and amplifiers selected to direct substantially equal portions of an input light signal to each sensor in the array. In another particularly preferred embodiment, first and second delay paths are provided for light at first and second wavelengths to increase the dynamic range of the sensors.
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