A vibration detection system based on two-stage polarization maintaining fiber Sagnac loop fiber laser

Abstract

A novel fiber grating sensing technique utilized for vibration detection is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. A single wavelength laser is formed by polarization controllers and polarization maintaining fiber (PMF) to construct the high birefringence (Hi-Bi) Sagnac loop, PMF combined with erbium-doped fiber, single mode fiber and polarizer. The cantilever glued to an FBG is used as a sensor probe, and the linear edge of Sagnac ring laser are used to demodulate fiber optic seismic vibration signal. Sagnac ring theory and its edge effects are described in detail, and numerical simulation and experiment show that the vibration signal detection system is adjusted periodically in a range from L1 to L1 + L2, sensitivity goes up to 38.2 W/nm of discrimination, the linearity is 0.9996, and the dynamic range is 4070 dB, these meeting the requirements for vibration detection technical parameters.