Low-frequency fiber-optic vibration sensing with a Floquet-engineered optical lattice clock

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel Floquet-engineered optical lattice clock approach to improve low-frequency vibration sensing in fiber-optic sensors, achieving high phase change sensitivity at sub-Hz frequencies.

Contribution

It presents a new demodulation scheme using Floquet-engineered Rabi spectra to enhance low-frequency performance of fiber-optic vibration sensors.

Findings

Simulated vibration detection from 200 Hz to 0.5 Hz

Achieved phase change sensitivity over 6,000 rad per g

Demonstrated potential for long-distance fiber sensing with low loss

Abstract

We propose a Floquet-engineered optical lattice clock based demodulation scheme to enhance the low-frequency performance of wound fiber-optic vibration sensors. Vibration-induced phase variations in the sensing fiber are demodulated by the Floquet-engineered Rabi spectra of the clock transition. The lattice depth with the fiber length and the Floquet-engineered Rabi spectra under the vibration from 200 Hz down to 0.5 Hz are simulated. With a fiber length of 4 km and transmission loss of 2 dB/km, a phase change sensitivity higher than 6 * 10^3 rad per g is achieved at both vibration frequencies of 200 Hz and 0.5 Hz.