Sagnac/Mach-Zehnder interferometer profile fiber sensing system and time domain positioning method thereof

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The invention discloses a Sagnac/Mach-Zehnder interferometer profile fiber sensing system and a time domain positioning method thereof. The system comprises a nested structure of a Sagnac interferometer consisting of three fiber couplers and four fibers and a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, wherein the Sagnac/Mach-Zehnder interferometers are respectively connected with an incoherent light source and two photoelectric detectors. In the time domain correlation positioning method, the cross-correlation operation of disturbing signals detected by the Sagnac interferometer and the Mach-Zehnder interferometer are utilized to determine the time used from disturbance propagation to one end of a sensing fiber, the delay time of a maximum value point of a cross-correlation curve corresponds to the time, and a disturbance position is determined by using the time. The invention overcomes the defects of limit positioning distance and positioning precision of a traditional Sagnac nterferometer profile fiber sensing system.

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