外文翻译--使用双光纤布拉格光栅传感器和互相关技术的水流量计.doc

外文翻译--使用双光纤布拉格光栅传感器和互相关技术的水流量计 A water flowmeter using dual fiber Bragg grating sensors and cross-correlation technique Abstract In this paper, a principle and experimental results of a cross-correlation flowmeter using fiber Bragg grating FBG sensors are presented.The flowmeter has no electronics and no mechanical parts in its sensing part and the structure is thus simple and immune to electromagnetic interference EMI. For water flow measurement, the flowmeter uses the time delay of the vortex signal generated by a bluff body. Karman vortex shedding frequency is also detected and utilized for the flow velocity estimation in the system. In order to realize a low noise andwide bandwidth system, we employed interferometric detection as a FBG wavelength-shift detection method. The noise spectral density of the FBG sensor with the interferometric detection was 4×10?4 pm/Hz1/2 corresponding to 0.33 nε/Hz1/2. A water flow experiment showed that the flowmeter had a linear characteristic at velocity range from 0 to 1.0 m/s and the minimum detectable velocity of 0.05 m/s. 1. Introduction Fiber Bragg grating FBG sensors have various advantages such as small size, simplicity in sensing principle, electromagnetic interference EMI immunity and capability of multiplexing. Because of these advantages, a number of basic researches and applications on FBG sensors have been made [1?3]. In telecommunication systems, FBGs are used as add-drop multiplexers because of their narrow bandwidth typically 0.1 nm. The FBG application to optical tunable filters is also useful for discrimination of the signals in FBG sensor systems [4]. The applications to smart structures and health monitoring are attractive and have been investigated actively [5,6]. FBGs are embedded in composite materials and used as strain and temperature sensors in the application. In the field of civil engineering, strain measurements for bridges and buildings are made using F