The Building of Optical Fiber Network System Using Hetero-Core Fiber Optic Sensors

Abstract:

We proposed a novel optical sensory nerve network using pulse switch sensors. The pulse switch sensor generates light loss similar to pulse signals only when ON/OFF states change. Therefore, it has less influence on communications quality compared with conventional switch sensor modules as sensor multiplicity increases. Our simulated results demonstrated that the proposed system can improve sensor multiplicity while maintaining the communications and measuring performance with the same quality as a conventional system by appropriately adjusting the initial loss of the pulse switch sensors. In particular, where ON/OFF time intervals follow exponential distributions with mean values of 5 and 300 s, respectively, the insertion loss of hetero-core segments inserted into pulse switch sensors is 0.3 dB, and the pulse switch sensors have curvature from 0.05 to 0.18. Under these conditions, our enhanced system can increase sensor multiplicity to 23 while maintaining link availability of almost 100%, a distinction error ratio of less than 1%, and a duplicated error ratio of about 0.5%.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 571)
• Pages: 342-346
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.571.342
• Online since: September 2012
• Authors: Yan Han
• Keywords: Hetero-Core Fiber Optic Sensor, Optical Fiber Communication, Ubiquitous Sensor Network

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