Abstract

The effect of annealing is experimentally studied for a fused silica, fully distributed fiber optic sensor based on the pulse pre-pump Brillouin optical time domain analysis (PPP-BOTDA). Within a heating rate of 4.3°C/min and 30.6°C/min, and a sustained peak temperature for 120 and 240 min, annealing extended the sensor’s upper operation temperature from 800°C to 1000°C and reduced the sensor’s measurement variability over a temperature range of 22°C to 1000°C with a maximum Brillouin frequency variation of 1%. The annealed sensor had a linearly decreasing Brillouin frequency sensitivity from $1.349\times {10}^{-3}\mathrm{GHz}/°\mathrm{C}$ at 22°C to $0.419\times {10}^{-3}\mathrm{GHz}/°\mathrm{C}$ at 1000°C. The time required to achieve a stable annealing effect decayed exponentially with annealing temperature.

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