Self-injection locking of the DFB laser through an external ring fiber cavity: Application for phase sensitive OTDR acoustic sensor

J.L. Bueno Escobedo; V.V. Spirin; C.A. López-Mercado; A. Márquez Lucero; P. Mégret; I.O. Zolotovskii; A.A. Fotiadi

Results in Physics (Jan 2017)

Self-injection locking of the DFB laser through an external ring fiber cavity: Application for phase sensitive OTDR acoustic sensor

J.L. Bueno Escobedo,
V.V. Spirin,
C.A. López-Mercado,
A. Márquez Lucero,
P. Mégret,
I.O. Zolotovskii,
A.A. Fotiadi

Affiliations

J.L. Bueno Escobedo: Centro de Investigacion en Materiales Avanzados S.C. (CIMAV), Ave. Miguel de Cervantes No. 120, Complejo Industrial Chihuahua, C.P. 31109 Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico
V.V. Spirin: Scientific Research and Advanced Studies Center of Ensenada (CICESE), Carretera Ensenada-Tijuana No. 3918, Zona Playitas, 22860 Ensenada, BC, Mexico; Institute of Problems of Mechanical Engineering, V.O., Bolshoj pr., 61, St. Petersburg 199178, Russia
C.A. López-Mercado: Scientific Research and Advanced Studies Center of Ensenada (CICESE), Carretera Ensenada-Tijuana No. 3918, Zona Playitas, 22860 Ensenada, BC, Mexico; University of Mons, Electromagnetism and Telecommunication Department, 31 Boulevard Dolez, B-7000 Mons, Belgium
A. Márquez Lucero: Centro de Investigacion en Materiales Avanzados S.C. (CIMAV), Ave. Miguel de Cervantes No. 120, Complejo Industrial Chihuahua, C.P. 31109 Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico
P. Mégret: University of Mons, Electromagnetism and Telecommunication Department, 31 Boulevard Dolez, B-7000 Mons, Belgium
I.O. Zolotovskii: Ulyanovsk State University, 42 Leo Tolstoy Street, Ulyanovsk 432970, Russia
A.A. Fotiadi: University of Mons, Electromagnetism and Telecommunication Department, 31 Boulevard Dolez, B-7000 Mons, Belgium; Ulyanovsk State University, 42 Leo Tolstoy Street, Ulyanovsk 432970, Russia; Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of the RAS, 26 Polytekhnicheskaya Street, St. Petersburg 194021, Russia; Corresponding author.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7
pp. 641 – 643

Abstract

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Self-injection locking of DFB laser implemented through the laser coupling with an external fiber optic ring cavity allows its direct employment as an interrogating light source for a phase sensitive OTDR acoustic sensor. Distributed detection and localization of dynamic perturbations of the optical fiber is experimentally demonstrated at the distance of 9270 m. Keywords: Self-injection locking, Optical fiber resonator, φ-OTDR

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ISSN: 2211-3797 (Online)
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Country of publisher: Netherlands
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