The invention discloses a low coherent interference
demodulation method based on a chromatic dispersion characteristic and an envelopment
peak value. According to the method, an F-p sensor is chosen to serve as a sensing element, a double
refraction optical wedge serves as an
optical path difference space scanning element, an interference fringe is formed in a zero
optical path difference local area, an F-P cavity length is demodulated according to the interference fringe, and therefore
atmospheric pressure is felt. According to the method, firstly,
Fourier filtering is carried out on an interference
signal; then a low precision distance corresponding to a
peak value position according to a
peak value position obtained by the envelopment peak value method and a cluster
refractive index of a low coherent interference
system dispersion element is obtained; finally, a theoretical phase position is calculated by the utilization of the peak value position chromatic dispersion characteristic, and the
distance error of the envelopment peak value method is determined according to the theoretical phase position and a measured phase position and high-precision
demodulation is achieved. Under the condition that
prior information is not needed, the
system chromatic dispersion characteristic and the envelopment peak value are utilized to achieve wide-range high-precision measurement of low coherent interference. The low coherent interference
demodulation method is applied to the
optical fiber sensing filed, the three-dimensional shape detecting and optical chromatographic technique, and other
distance measurement fields.