Optical interrogation system and sensor system

Lorna Everall; Glynn Lloyd

Optical interrogation system and sensor system

Lorna Everall (Inventor), Glynn Lloyd (Inventor)

College of Engineering, Environment & Science

Aston Photonic Technologies Limited

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Abstract

An optical interrogation system 10 includes optical amplifying and gating apparatus, in the form of a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) 14 and an optical source 12, 14. Drive apparatus 22 (an electrical pulse generator driven by a variable frequency oscillator) is provided to generate electrical drive pulses (see inset (a)) which are applied to the SOA 14, to cause the SOA 14 to switch on and off. The optical source comprises a super-luminescent diode (SLD) 12, the CW output from which is gated into optical pulses by the SOA 14. The SOA 14 is optically coupled to the waveguide 16 containing an array of reflective optical elements (gratings G) to be interrogated. The interrogation system further includes an optical detector 18, optically coupled to the SOA 14, operable to evaluate the wavelength of a returned optical pulse transmitted by the SOA 14.

Original language	English
Patent number	US2004113056
IPC	G01N 21/00
Priority date	16/12/02
Filing date	19/09/03
Publication status	Published - 17 Jun 2004

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