OPTICAL FIBER FEATURE DISTRIBUTION SENSOR

摘要

The present invention relates to an optical fiber characteristic distribution sensor comprising a structure to effectively reduce the measurement errors of position in the temperature distribution measurement etc. The sensor comprises an optical fiber section, part of which is installed in an object to be measured and to which probe light and pumping light are inputted in opposite directions. The optical fiber section includes a marker portion where data relating to the shape of a BGS in the maker has been preliminarily measured in a state where the optical fiber section is installed in a normal state. At the time of calculating the characteristic distribution in the longitudinal direction of the optical fiber section while measuring the data relating to the BGS shape, the errors of the calculated gain occurrence position are corrected, for example, by shifting the scanning range of phase difference between the probe light and the pumping light. The amount of shift of the scanning range of phase difference is given based on a difference value between the phase difference at the time of measurement when the BGS that reflects the gain that has occurred in the marker portion is measured, and the reference phase difference when data relating to the already known shape of the BGS in the marker portion has been preliminarily measured.