OFDR distributed temperature sensing at 800°C on a fiber with enhanced Rayleigh scattering profile by doping

Patrick Bulot (1) , Odile Cristini (2) , Monika Bouet (2) , Aurélie Demol (2) , Laurent Bigot (2) , Geraud Bouwmans (2) , Stéphane Plus (2) , Rémi Habert (2) , Guillaume Laffont (1) , Marc Douay (2)

1 LCFO - Laboratoire Capteurs Fibres Optiques
2 PhLAM - Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules - UMR 8523

Distributed temperature sensing is performed up to 800°C by Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry on a fiber with enhanced Rayleigh scattering profile. This fiber was drawn from a preform core-doped by zirconia-coated gold nanoparticles.

Keywords: Rayleigh scattering; Refractive index; Femtosecond lasers; Fiber Bragg gratings; Laser irradiation; Single mode fibers

Domains: Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]; Optics [physics.optics]; Materials Science [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]; Thermics [physics.class-ph]

Patrick Bulot, Odile Cristini, Monika Bouet, Aurélie Demol, Laurent Bigot, et al.. OFDR distributed temperature sensing at 800°C on a fiber with enhanced Rayleigh scattering profile by doping. Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling in Glass Waveguides and Materials, Jul 2018, Zurich, Switzerland. pp.BM3A.2, ⟨10.1364/BGPPM.2018.BM3A.2⟩. ⟨cea-01919629⟩