Open Access
Sensors, volume 24, issue 4, pages 1253
An Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometer’s (OFDR) Performance Improvement via Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) and Frequency Filtration for Smart Sensing
Maxim E. Belokrylov
1
,
Dmitry A. Kambur
1, 2
,
Yuri A Konstantinov
1
,
D. Claude
1
,
Fedor L Barkov
1
Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 2024-02-15
Biochemistry
Analytical Chemistry
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Instrumentation
Abstract
We describe a method for reducing the cost of optical frequency domain reflectometer (OFDR) hardware by replacing two reference channels, including an auxiliary interferometer and a gas cell, with a single channel. To extract useful information, digital signal processing methods were used: digital frequency filtering, as well as empirical mode decomposition. It is shown that the presented method helps to avoid the use of an unnecessary analog-to-digital converter and photodetector, while the OFDR trace is restored by the equal frequency resampling (EFR) algorithm without loss of high resolution and with good measurement repeatability.
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