Simultaneous measurement of refractive index, temperature and strain based on core diameter mismatch and polarization-maintaining FBG

A kind of fiber-optic sensor for simultaneous measurement of refractive index of surrounding medium, temperature and strain is described. Based on core diameter mismatch, a multimode-single mode-multimode (MSM) structure is presented. It is demonstrated that the three parameters can be measured respectively by the interference of the core mode and cladding modes excited in the single mode fiber (SMF). Then combined with a polarization-maintaining fiber Bragg grating (PMFBG) which has different sensing properties from MSM structure, three parameters are measured simultaneously. The experimental results show that PMFBG is insensitive to the refractive index and the refractive index sensitivity of the MSM structure is 96.04 nm·RIU^(-1); the temperature sensitivities of the characteristic wavelength for MSM structure and the center wavelengths of fast and slow axes for PMFBG are 0.0911 nm °C^(-1), 0.00976 nm °C^(-1) and 0.0105 nm °C^(-1), respectively; the strain sensitivities of those are -0.013 nm με^(-1), 0.012 nm με^(-1) and 0.012 nm με^(-1), respectively.

Performance of CO-OFDM system with RS-Turbo concatenated code

In this paper,the RS-Turbo concatenated code is applied to coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(CO-OFDM) system.RS(186,166,8) and Turbo code with code rate of 1/2 are employed for RS-Turbo concatenated code.Two decoding algorithms,which are Max-Log-MAP algorithm and Log-MAP algorithm,are adopted for Turbo decoding,and the iteration Berlekamp-Massey(BM) algorithm is adopted for RS decoding.The simulation results show that the bit error rate(BER) performance of CO-OFDM system with RS-Turbo concatenated code is significantly improved at high optical signal to noise ratio(OSNR),and the iteration number is reduced compared with that of the Turbo coded system.Furthermore,when the Max-Log-MAP algorithm is adopted for Turbo decoding,the transmission distance of CO-OFDM system with RS-Turbo concatenated code can reach about 400 km without error,while that of the Turbo coded system can only reach about 240 km when BER is lower than 10^(-4) order of magnitude.

Research on the transmission performance of turbo codes in DDO-OFDM system

A direct detection optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(DDO-OFDM)system using turbo codes is built,and the transmission performance comparison between coded system and uncoded system is analyzed.Three decoding algorithms,which are Log-maximum a posteriori(MAP),Max-Log-MAP and threshold Max-Log-MAP,are used in the turbo coded system.By comparing three decoding algorithms,the system using Max-Log-MAP algorithm has the best bit error rate(BER)performance.At the transmission distance of 240 km,the uncoded system with transmission rate of 30 Gbit/s can get the BER performance at the degree of 8.93×10-3 with optical signal to noise ratio(OSNR)of24 d B,while the turbo coded system with transmission rate of 50 Gbit/s can achieve it within OSNR of 20 d B.