Energy Recycling From Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensors

Juan M. Marin; Islam Ashry; Abderrahmen Trichili; Omar Alkhazragi; Chun Hong Kang; Tien Khee Ng; Boon S. Ooi

doi:10.1109/LPT.2023.3295405

Energy Recycling From Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensors

Juan M. Marin, Islam Ashry^*, Abderrahmen Trichili, Omar Alkhazragi, Chun Hong Kang, Tien Khee Ng, Boon S. Ooi^*

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Abstract

Distributed fiber-optic sensors (DFOS) have been widely deployed in a wide range of applications. The operational principle of such DFOS typically relies on monitoring light backscattered due to pumping optical pulses in an optical fiber. Once the DFOS' optical pump pulses reach the distal end of the optical fiber, the power carried by each pulse is conventionally wasted and dissipated to the medium surrounding the fiber without a benefit. Here, we report on energy harvesting from the DFOS' optical pulses to recycle the wasted optical power for electric-consuming devices supply. We demonstrated the feasibility of this concept by harvesting energy from a fiber-optic distributed acoustic sensor (DAS) and a distributed temperature sensor (DTS). The study further investigates the impact of changing the pulse repetition rate within the 5-25 kHz range on the harvested power. Without any disturbances in the DFOS functionalities, power values of up to 0.871 mW were harvested as a proof-of-concept demonstration.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	994-997
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	35
Issue number	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2023.3295405
State	Published - Sep 15 2023

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This work was supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) under Grant BAS/1/1614-01-01.

Publisher Copyright:
© 1989-2012 IEEE.

Keywords

Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS)
distributed temperature sensing (DTS)
energy harvesting
power-over-fiber

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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