Analyzing Distributed Vibrating Sensing Technologies in Optical Meshes
Saifur Rahman,
Farman Ali,
Fazal Muhammad,
Muhammad Irfan,
Adam Glowacz,
Mohammed Shahed Akond,
Ammar Armghan,
Salim Nasar Faraj Mursal,
Amjad Ali,
Fahad Salem Alkahtani
Affiliations
Saifur Rahman
Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Najran University Saudi Arabia, Najran 61441, Saudi Arabia
Farman Ali
Department of Electrical Engineering, Qurtuba University of Science and IT, D. I. Khan 29050, Pakistan
Fazal Muhammad
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering Technology, Mardan 23200, Pakistan
Muhammad Irfan
Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Najran University Saudi Arabia, Najran 61441, Saudi Arabia
Adam Glowacz
Department of Automatic Control and Robotics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
Mohammed Shahed Akond
Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Najran University Saudi Arabia, Najran 61441, Saudi Arabia
Ammar Armghan
Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Jouf University, Sakaka 72388, Saudi Arabia
Salim Nasar Faraj Mursal
Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Najran University Saudi Arabia, Najran 61441, Saudi Arabia
Amjad Ali
Department of Electrical Engineering, Jalozai Campus, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar 24240, Pakistan
Fahad Salem Alkahtani
Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Najran University Saudi Arabia, Najran 61441, Saudi Arabia
Hundreds of kilometers of optical fibers are installed for optical meshes (OMs) to transmit data over long distances. The visualization of these deployed optical fibers is a highlighted issue because the conventional procedure can only measure the optical losses. Thus, this paper presents distributed vibration sensing (DVS) estimation mechanisms to visualize the optical fiber behavior installed for OMs which is not possible by conventional measurements. The proposed technique will detect the power of light inside the optical fiber, as well as different physical parameters such as the phase of transmitted light inside the thread, the frequency of vibration, and optical losses. The applicability of optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR) and optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR) DVS techniques are validated theoretically for various state detection procedures in optical fibers. The simulation model is investigated in terms of elapsed time, the spectrum of a light signal, frequency, and the impact of many external physical accidents with optical fibers.
