Abstract
We report an amplitude-measuring multimode fiber sensor capable of making quantitative strain measurements and extracting the algebraic sign of the strain. The Rayleigh-based sensor probes the fiber with pulses of alternating optical frequency and records the backscattered speckle patterns on a high-speed camera. We show that measuring the change in the speckle pattern induced by a change in optical frequency provides a form of in situ calibration, enabling the sensor to recover the magnitude and algebraic sign of the strain. The sensor, which can be positioned anywhere along 2 km of fiber, has a linear strain response, a 10 kHz bandwidth, and a strain noise of ${10.2}\;{\rm p}\unicode{x03B5} /\surd {{\rm Hz}} $.
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