• Patent Title: Low crosstalk, common path, dual ring sagnac interferometer for disturbance sensing
  • Application No.: US16304395
    Application Date: 2018-07-27
  • Publication No.: US10598544B2
    Publication Date: 2020-03-24
  • Inventor: Yi YangTrevor MacDougall
  • Applicant: Luxpoint, Inc.
  • Agent Matthew J Patterson
  • International Application: PCT/US2018/044034 WO 20180727
  • International Announcement: WO2020/023054 WO 20200130
  • Main IPC: G01H9/00
  • IPC: G01H9/00 G01D5/353 G02B6/293 H04B10/2587
Low crosstalk, common path, dual ring sagnac interferometer for disturbance sensing
Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure include a low crosstalk, optical fiber based disturbance detection system that includes single-mode optical fiber (SMF) arranged into dual ring Sagnac interferometer wherein both rings share a common sensing section of optical fiber path length. Certain embodiments further include fiber Bragg gratings (FBG's), circulators and couplers to be able to separate the optical signals of the two rings of the dual ring Sagnac interferometer and to perform processing of their individual signals. Embodiments are also disclosed that enable the position of a physical disturbance, the magnitude of the physical disturbance and the frequency of the physical disturbance to be known.
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