WO1999006795A1 - Self-calibrating optical fiber pressure, strain and temperature sensors - Google Patents
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- the present invention generally relates to remote condition sensors and measurement devices and, more particularly, to remote measurement and sensing using optical fiber communication links.
- Condition sensing and measurement are encountered in many diverse fields of endeavor. Many of these applications require very precise measurement of a physical parameter and often at extremely inaccessible locations and/or where severe conditions exist.
- the sensor may be required to communicate with the remainder of the measurement system over substantial distances while making extremely accurate and highly sensitive measurements of strain, pressure or temperature in an environment of very high temperatures and pressures which may adversely affect calibration of the sensor, compromise accuracy or limit resolution of the measurement through environmental effects on the communication link including electrical or magnetic noise.
- optical fiber sensors employing a transducer exploiting an optical effect and communicating over a length of optical fiber are known and used in some of the more adverse measurement environments.
- Optical fibers are not susceptible to the pick-up of electrical or magnetic noise and optical energy transmitted thereto can often provide a reference measurement for calibration or correction of a measured value.
- transmission and return of optical signals over the same or a pair of optical fibers which are constrained to have the same geometrical configuration can provide compensation for optical signal losses in the fiber.
- the use of optical fibers also allows compensation to be determined through use of spectrally separated optical signals.
- an optical fiber measurement system including a source of broadband energy, a transducer receiving the broadband energy having a gap between reflective interfaces of a length which is greater than one- half a coherence length of the broadband energy, a band-pass filter having a pass band smaller than a spectral content of the broadband energy and corresponding to a coherence length greater than twice the length of the gap, and an arrangement for determining a ratio of energy of a portion of the broadband energy reflected by the transducer having a coherence length less than twice the length of said gap and energy of another portion of the broadband energy reflected by the transducer having a coherence length greater than twice the length of the gap.
- a method of measuring temperature, pressure or strain including the steps of reflecting broadband energy from two spaced interfaces defining a gap wherein the gap varies with temperature, pressure or strain, the broadband energy having a coherence length less than one-half the gap length, band pass filtering a portion of reflected broadband energy in accordance with a pass band corresponding to a coherence length greater than twice the gap length, and comparing power of the portion of reflected broadband energy filtered by the band pass filtering step with power of another portion of the broadband energy.
- an optical transducer for a measurement system using broadband energy including two reflective interfaces spaced from each other and capable of causing an interference between energy reflected by respective ones of said interfaces, spacing between the interfaces being greater than a coherence length of the broadband energy, and means for limiting change of spacing of said two reflective interfaces over a measurement range to one-quarter of a center wavelength of energy included in the broadband energy.
- Figure 1 is a schematic illustration of an optical fiber transducer and measurement arrangement in accordance with the invention
- Figure 2 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the optical transducer of Figure 1
- Figure 3 is a graphical representation of electromagnetic energy spectra useful in understanding the present invention
- Figure 4 is a view of the optical transducer of Figure 2 illustrating pressure or strain measurement with temperature compensation
- Figure 5 is a similar view of the optical transducer of Figure 2 illustrating temperature while minimizing effects due to pressure.
- Figure 1 there is shown, in schematic form, an optical fiber measurement system 100 in accordance with the invention. It is to be understood that several of the elements shown in Figure 1 are also common to known optical fiber sensor arrangements (but may not have the same properties as in the present invention) and that the illustration of Figure 1 is arranged in a manner to facilitate comprehension by those skilled in the art. Therefore, while Figure 1 may appear similar to some known optical fiber sensor arrangements, no portion of Figure 1 is admitted to be prior art as to the present invention other than specific elements which may be indicated as possibly being of a known type in the following discussion. Specifically, the system of the present invention receives energy input from a broadband light source depicted by arrow 110.
- broadband light source is not important to the practice of the invention but relatively high power sources such as incandescent or halogen (e.g. so-called tungsten-halogen) light sources or light emitting or superluminescent diodes are preferred.
- incandescent or halogen e.g. so-called tungsten-halogen
- tungsten-halogen e.g. so-called tungsten-halogen
- the term "broadband” is used in a relative sense (e.g. broader than an available band pass filter) and does not necessarily infer white light.
- a plurality of monochromatic light sources respectively operating over a range of different wavelengths could, in theory, be used.
- Light from broadband light source 110 is carried through optical fiber 120 to a so-called two-by-two coupler 130.
- Couplers could also be used, particularly if plural light sources are employed, as alluded to above.
- One output or leg (131) of the coupler 130 is terminated by an index matching device 135 of a known type to prevent reflection back into the coupler 130 to interfere with the measurement process.
- Another leg 132 of the coupler 130 forms or is connected to the optical fiber 140 through which communication to and from the sensor head or transducer 150 takes place.
- Optical fiber 140 can be either a single mode or multi-mode fiber although a multi-mode fiber may offer better measurement resolution since more power from a broadband light source can usually be coupled into a multi-mode fiber.
- a desired measurement is performed by reflections of respective portions of the light input to the transducer 150 which are returned over optical fiber 140 to coupler 130. Light thus returned to leg 132 of coupler 130 is extracted on another leg 133 of coupler 130 which will then be analyzed to make the desired measurement.
- GRIN quarter-pitch graded index
- the graded index of refraction over the radius of the device refracts light therein in proportion to the angle of propagation of the light to the axis of the GRIN device.
- the light output by coupler leg 133 is directed into beam splitter 160 of any type or construction which divides the light beam into two separate beams.
- These preferably broadband beams are differentially spectrally band-pass filtered with pass bands of different width into spectral components above and below a wavelength dependent on a gap between reflective surfaces in transducer 150 as will be discussed below by filters 170 and 180, each associated with a respective output beam of beam splitter 160, and received by respective photodetectors 175 and 185 by which a self- referenced (and, hence, self-calibrating with appropriate and well-understood processing) measurement is made.
- filters 170 and 180 each associated with a respective output beam of beam splitter 160, and received by respective photodetectors 175 and 185 by which a self- referenced (and, hence, self-calibrating with appropriate and well-understood processing) measurement is made.
- the sensor 150 is extremely simple, comprising a lead- in fiber 210 which is comprised of or coupled to a terminal portion of optical fiber 140 of Figure 1 and a reflecting fiber 220 spaced therefrom across a gap 260, preferably embodied as an air gap.
- Nominal dimensions of gap (hereinafter "air gap") 260 are preferably maintained by a hollow tube or topologically similar structure 230 bonded to each of the lead-in fiber 210 and reflecting fiber 220 at separated locations 230 and 240, respectively.
- the material within "air gap" 260 and physical state thereof is not particularly important to the practice of the invention so long as the refractive index of the material differs sufficiently from that of the optical fibers 210, 220 to provide suitably reflective interfaces at both ends of the gap 260.
- partial reflectivity of the end surfaces of the lead-in and the reflecting fibers should be determined in accordance with anticipated power levels at detectors 175 and 185 subsequent to band pass filtering. In general, it is considered preferable to keep the intensity levels of reflected light similar for the two surfaces to obtain optimum fringe visibility. Reflectivity from the surface of the reflecting fiber may be augmented by metallization or the like, if necessary or desired.
- the material placed in the "air gap" 260 and its physical parameters such as pressure or preloading can be freely chosen as an incident of the design of the transducer 150 in accordance with anticipated measurement range, resolution and accuracy requirements and environmental conditions and the properties (e.g. refractive index, Young's modulus, coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) and the like) as long as suitably reflective interfaces are formed.
- the precise length of the air gap while important to the principles of the invention, is not particularly critical to the practice of the invention. Nevertheless, a short air gap is preferred for several practical reasons including compactness of the transducer, as will become apparent to those skilled in the art in light of the following discussion.
- coherence length is a somewhat arbitrarily defined but quantitative parameter (varying with the square of the center wavelength divided by the spectral width) .
- the coherence length is inversely proportional to a spectral width of energy in a beam which comprehends or includes particular different wavelength components of the energy beam.
- a very broadband beam thus corresponds to a very short coherence length.
- a very narrow spectral width corresponds to a very long coherence length.
- each of any of a plurality of arbitrary narrow bands which can be isolated by filtering from a broader band beam will exhibit a relatively longer coherence length while the broader band beam continues to exhibit a relatively shorter coherence length.
- the light which is reflected from surface 221 of reflecting fiber 220 traverses air gap 260 twice and is thus delayed from the reflection from the end surface 211 of lead-in fiber 210. If the coherence length of the incident optical beam or a spectral band therein is greater than twice the optical length of the air gap (e.g. accounting for the refractive index of the material) , strong interference will occur between the two reflected beam components and consequent periodic variations in the intensity of the reflected light will be observed at a point of the reflected beam as the air gap is continuously increased or decreased. It should be noted in this regard that practical power levels of energy beam components thus impose a practical limit on air gap length.
- the periodic variations in the intensity of reflected light noted above should be understood to occur in the time domain during continuous variation of gap length although the measurement system is not operated in such a mode, as should be evident from the limitations on gap dimensions relative to incident energy wavelength which will produce interference or observable levels of such interference.
- change of air gap length in the preferred mode of operation is limited to a relatively narrow range corresponding to a fraction of a cycle of the periodic variation of intensity referred to above within the range of air gap lengths for which such periodic variation during continuous variation of air gap length is observable.
- the power and energy of the spectral component bands within a broadband beam which will correspond to a correspondingly altered coherence length and thus cause observable interference will also change dramatically.
- the coherence length of the broadband beam is much shorter than the doubled air gap, the interference, on average over the band width of the beam will be negligible and no periodic variations in the sensor output will be observed. It is important to an understanding of the invention to note that these effects may be observed concurrently for different ranges of spectral widths within the same broadband beam and that the ranges of spectral components for which interference effects will be observed (and the energy or power therein) will change with changes in the dimensions of the air gap. That is, in accordance with the principles of the invention, the total average energy of bands within the broadband beam which produce periodic variations in light intensity is a function of the (doubled) air gap length, resulting in a strong change in energy with change of air gap length.
- one of beams 175 and 185 will be substantially limited to (or "see") a range of wavelengths which will be strongly affected by changes in air gap length while the other will be affected little and generally negligibly over a broad band of wavelengths by air gap changes. That is, over a pass band within a broader incident energy band, coherence lengths which produce interference effects for a range of air gap length will be correspondingly more dominant than over the broader incident energy band.
- a distribution of wavelengths 360 having a narrower spectrum 350 (corresponding to the narrower of the pass bands of filters 170, 180 of Figure 1) within that of the broadband energy spectrum 320 will cause interference and result in periodically varying intensity fluctuations with change of air gap length.
- the center frequency or wavelength of the broadband energy from the source or as filtered at 170 or 180 need not be the same as the center frequency or wavelength 305' of the narrow band 360 as long as the narrow band is within a relatively flat region of the broadband spectrum 320.
- the length of the (doubled) air gap determines the proportion of incident energy which results in interference of a component of the energy reflected from the sensor as well as the average power seen in the average interference pattern.
- the power observed at the detector (175 or 185) of portions of the broadband spectrum 320 within narrow band 350, 360 having a coherence length greater than the doubled air gap and causing interference will also increase or decrease.
- the observed power in the interference pattern will also change strongly with changes in air gap length for each arbitrary band within the narrow band filtered beam and will also be strongly observed on average over pass band 350.
- the ratio of energies or optical powers of the spectrum 320 and the partial spectrum 350 as observed in a fringe of the interference pattern will thus provide a measure of the parameter of interest.
- the air gap 260 of the sensor 150 must be selected in such a way that the air gap is longer than the coherence length of full broadband spectrum 330 but shorter than the coherence length of a narrower spectrum (e.g. corresponding to the filter pass band 350) which will be of suitable optical power to be detected with good resolution after filtration at 170, 180 by photosensors 175, 185.
- a narrower spectrum e.g. corresponding to the filter pass band 350
- Filters 170, 180 are preferably band-pass filters having the same or similar (depending on the "flatness" of the broadband spectrum) center frequencies but different spectral bandwidths; the narrower bandwidth corresponding to a nominal value of the doubled air gap of the sensor such that the coherence length of the pass-band of the filter is much longer than the doubled air gap.
- the optical power in each of the two channels produced by beam-splitter 160, after filtering, will have very different sensitivities to changes in the length of the air gap which will be reflected in the relative optical power of the respective filtered beams, as discussed above.
- ambiguity can be introduced into the measurement provided by the transducer unless resolved by fringe counting or phase tracking which is usually sophisticated and costly preventing absolute measurements.
- fringe counting or phase tracking which is usually sophisticated and costly preventing absolute measurements.
- the introduction of ambiguity can be avoided and any need for fringe counting or phase tracking eliminated by designing the sensor with an air gap having limited variation of length with monitored conditions.
- a short air gap is preferred to increase maximum power and power variation observable in the signal (since observability of interference effects and power therein diminishes with air gap length, as alluded to above) and to avoid excess sensitivity to the parameter of interest as well as to minimize overall dimensions of the transducer.
- sensitivity to change of the measured parameter can be readily understood since a given change in, for example, temperature or pressure will result in a change of air gap length which will be proportional length of the transducer affected by the measured parameter and which is generally coextensive with air gap length.
- a very short air gap on the order of a few microns to a few tens of microns generally assures both sufficient power for measurements of high accuracy and resolution while avoiding the need for system complexities such as fringe counting to avoid measurement ambiguity. If necessary to provide coverage of wide variation of values of a parameter of interest, the sensitivity of the transducer can be further limited as discussed below.
- This feature of the preferred form of the invention also allows the transducer to be formed at very small size (e.g. 150 ⁇ m in diameter and 300 ⁇ m in length) and of high robustness.
- the hollow sleeve portion 230 is not involved in the optical effects exploited by the transducer and thus can be fabricated from any desired material (e.g. to resist corrosion to choose a particular coefficient ⁇ f expansion, etc. in any combination) and may, if desired or advantageous in a particular environment, enclose the salient or distal end of the reflecting fiber or other reflecting structure 220, such as a diaphragm for sensing of fluid pressure.
- Differences in the optical power of the filtered beams may be derived in several different ways in accordance with the principles of the invention.
- the bandwidth of the broadband light source is very large, consistent with maintaining highest possible light intensity through the system for greatest practical monitoring distance and length of optical fiber
- a narrow-band filter which sets the pass band 350 at a range significantly larger than that corresponding to coherence length at an extreme measurement anticipated for the transducer. It should also be appreciated that filtering is not necessary in both channels and can be provided in only one channel if the broadband spectrum of the light source is well-defined and relatively stable, as in the case of a light- emitting diode. That is, while output spectra of light-emitting diodes are known to vary significantly but predictably with substantial excursions of temperature, in the case of the present invention, temperature can be readily controlled since the light source is located at the detector end of the fiber.
- a single filter e.g. 185
- a narrow pass band filter in combination with a light-emitting diode is a particularly desirable combination to implement the invention since the spectral content of a light-emitting diode is substantially invariant over time and can be more efficiently coupled to an optical fiber than white light sources.
- Figures 4 and 5 for preferred forms of temperature and pressure sensors which are either fully or substantially immune to effects of other environmental conditions.
- Figure 4 shows a sensor 150, as shown in Figure 2, as well, for discussion of providing for temperature compensation during pressure or strain measurement.
- Figure 5 shows a temperature sensor including adaptations which, while not providing complete compensation for pressure variations, at least provides limitation of pressure effects on the temperature measurement. From the above discussion of Figure 2 , it can be understood that any combination of pressure, strain and/or temperature can alter the length of the air gap.
- substantial compensation for temperature in a pressure or strain sensor can be achieved by merely fabricating lead-in fiber 210, reflecting fiber 220, and hollow sleeve 230 of the same material or materials having the same coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) .
- Exact compensation can be achieved by proportioning the CTE's of the lead-in and reflecting fibers and the CTE of the hollow sleeve 230 and the locations where the fibers are bonded to the sleeve such that the ratio of the CTE of the sleeve to the CTEs of the fibers is d+d':d+d'+g. It can be understood that when g becomes small relative to d and/or d', as would usually the case in view of the preferred short air gap as described above, the difference between substantial and exact compensation becomes vanishingly small.
- sensitivity to strain or pressure and range of measurement can be varied by choice of d and d' relative to the distance between bonds 240 preferably chosen to keep the gap variation within one-quarter of the center wavelength constraint described above.
- Choice of material for sleeve 230 to have an increased Young's modulus of elasticity may extend the measurement range for given values of d and d' at the expense of resolution and sensitivity.
- pressure and strain effects can be further precorrected by adjustment of nominal fluid pressure in the air gap to counteract such forces at a nominal working temperature and the transducer suitably calibrated accordingly.
- pressure and strain corrections are generally small if the transducer itself is no longer than necessary since even large forces will cause only a change of a small percentage of sensor length.
- corrections for pressure and/or strain may be relatively negligible or susceptible of substantially complete correction based on calibration and rough estimates of pressure and/or strain.
- the invention provides for temperature, pressure or strain measurement over large distances and with high accuracy and resolution while providing compensation or at least minimization of effects of those physical parameters other than the parameter of interest with simple, intensity based signal detection and processing.
- Energy source and fiber transmission loss variations are fully compensated.
- the transducer is simple, inexpensive to fabricate, extremely small and robust and, depending on materials, resists flammable and corrosive environments. Moreover, no optical filtering is required in the transducer and only reflections which are immune to environmental conditions are employed.
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