Instantaneous Response of Wide Area Intrusion Sensor With Long Haul Monitoring Capability
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-7-2013
Abstract
Current optical based wide area intrusion sensors are very limited due to either a complicated setup, expensive facilities, or long data acquisition time. Taking advantage of acoustic wave on the laser dynamics behavior of erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL), an intrusion sensor with sensing length up to 25 km was demonstrated in this letter. Different from an optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) based vibration sensor that needs long data acquisition time to obtain average value from multiple scans, this setup provided instantaneous response to the monitoring system as soon as the surrounding area of the sensor is triggered by vibration activities. As the dynamic behavior is directly detected as a large optical intensity fluctuation, hence conventional photo-detector and digital oscilloscope are the only facilities needed in the monitoring system, which make the setup very simple and cost effective.
Keywords
Acoustic sensors, Acousto-optic effects, Erbium doped fiber lasers, Intrusion sensor, Laser dynamics
Divisions
PHYSICS
Publication Title
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume
25
Issue
23
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)