The invention discloses a large-scale
fiber grating sensor flexible
multiplexing device based on OFDR. The device comprises a tunable
light source, a main interferometer, an auxiliary interferometer,photoelectric detectors PD1 and PD2, a
data acquisition unit and a control
processing unit, wherein the tunable
light source provides periodic scanning light with linearly changing wavelengths for themain interferometer and the auxiliary interferometer, the main interferometer comprises a reference arm and a measuring arm, wherein the reference arm is composed of a single-mode
optical fiber and aFaraday rotator mirror connected to the
tail end of the single-mode
optical fiber, the measuring arm is composed of a plurality of identical weak reflection
fiber grating sensors, the auxiliary interferometer comprises two paths of single-mode optical fibers with different lengths and
Faraday rotator mirrors connected with the
tail ends of the single-mode optical fibers, the
data acquisition unittakes an auxiliary interferometer beat frequency
signal acquired by the photoelectric
detector PD1 as an external sampling
clock and performs equal optical
frequency interval sampling on a main interferometer beat frequency
signal acquired by the photoelectric
detector PD2, and the sweep frequency nonlinearity of the tunable
light source is compensated. According to the scheme, on the premise that devices such as an optical divider and a photoelectric
detector are not additionally arranged, flexible
multiplexing of the single-channel multi-channel
fiber grating sensor is achieved, and the device can be widely applied to multiple fields.