Browsing by Author "Kartaloglu, Tolga"

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Field Test and Fading Measurement of a Distributed Acoustic Sensor System over a 50 km-long Fiber
(SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING, 1000 20TH ST, PO BOX 10, BELLINGHAM, WA 98227-0010 USA, 2018) Uyar, Faruk; Kartaloglu, Tolga; Ozdur, Ibrahim; Ozbay, Ekmel; AGÜ, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Elektrik & Elektronik Mühendisliği Bölümü;
In this study, we present a direct detection distributed acoustic sensor based on phase-sensitive optical time domain reflectometer (phi-OTDR) with long sensing range and high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), which is field-tested over a 50 km-long fiber. Due to the random nature of Rayleigh backscattered light and fading phenomena, it is hard to characterize the performance of the system. For this reason, the performance of our sensor is specified in a statistical manner in which the mean SNR is determined using the histograms of the SNR. The SNR values are measured for identical acoustic signals in five different days, total of 48 hours and the SNR histograms are obtained for fiber distances of 100 m, 12 km, 21 km, 30 km, 40 km and 50 km. The system is field-tested using external disturbances that are generated from a 50-Hz vibrator. The SNR values are extracted from the power spectral density (psd) of the collected data over the monitored fiber span. Our results show that the phi-OTDR system exhibits a mean SNR of 22.5 dB at 50 km distance.
The Investigation of Rayleigh Backscattered Signal Statistics in a phi-OTDR System Incorporating Optical Pre-Amplifier
(IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA, 2020) Uyar, Faruk; Kartaloglu, Tolga; Ozbay, Ekmel; Ozdur, Ibrahim; AGÜ, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Elektrik - Elektronik Mühendisliği Bölümü
We theoretically model and experimentally demonstrate the photon statistics of Rayleigh backscattered signal in a phi-OTDR based distributed fiber optical sensor in the presence of amplified spontaneous emission noise caused by optical pre-amplifier.
A Simple Method for Enhancing the SNR in Direct Detection (p-OTDR based Distributed Acoustic Sensors
(IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA, 2020) Uyar, Faruk; Kartaloglu, Tolga; Unal, Canberk; Ozbay, Ekmel; Ozdur, Ibrahim; AGÜ, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Elektrik - Elektronik Mühendisliği Bölümü
A simple and effective method for increasing the SNR and range in fp-OTDR based direct -detection distributed acoustic sensors is proposed and experimentally verified. The proposed method results in 11 dB SNR improvement at 66 km. (fD 2020 The Author(s)