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This paper shows an optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR) system based on an avalanche photodiode (APD) receiver, a 520 nm laser diode transmitter, a high-speed analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a commercially available field programmable gate array (FPGA). This approach allows OTDR measurements up to 200 m and provides a spatial resolution of 20 cm. Depending on the number of averaging, the measurement time can be between 5 s and 50 s for a range up to 200 m with a good signal to noise ratio.
We present a robust concept for quasi distributed strain measurement using optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR) in polymer optical fibers (POF). The spatial shifts of discrete reflective events in the OTDR trace are evaluated as reference points. It is shown how such reference reflections can be prepared and which properties can be expected.
With polymer optical fibers (POF) attached to geotextiles, optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR) can be used to measure strain of the geotextile spatially resolved in soil. We test the technique in a geotechnical application test and thus demonstrate the functionality of the sensor for field use.
There are various applications in high voltage, explosive or high electromagnetic interfered environments that require sensors with an electrical isolation from other components of a system. The basics of possible solution, based on optically powered sensor links, were shown previously. Because of different requirements for the applications, a variety of system approaches has been developed (available power for sensor purposes; length between the control node and the sensor; speed of transmitted data etc.). Key requirements and the current approaches will be discussed below.
