Automatic Interference Term Retrieval From Spectral Domain Low-Coherence Interferometry Using the EEMD-EMD-Based Method

Low-coherence interferometry (LCI) has proved to be a useful tool in optical measurement and detection. However, the noise that is present in practical applications makes interference term retrieval (ITR) difficult. In this paper, we propose a novel technique based on ensemble empirical mode decompo...

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Main Authors: Hongxia Zhang, Feng Wang, Dagong Jia, Tiegen Liu, Yimo Zhang
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Published: IEEE 2016-01-01
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Feng Wang
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Tiegen Liu
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Yimo Zhang
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description Low-coherence interferometry (LCI) has proved to be a useful tool in optical measurement and detection. However, the noise that is present in practical applications makes interference term retrieval (ITR) difficult. In this paper, we propose a novel technique based on ensemble empirical mode decomposition and empirical mode decomposition (EEMD-EMD) to achieve automatic ITR from the spectral domain LCI. In EEMD, the correlation coefficient of each intrinsic mode function (IMF) is calculated, and a characteristic parameter (CP) is introduced to recognize and remove the IMFs of noisy components. The remaining IMFs are used to reconstruct a new signal followed by EMD to extract the interference term. An experiment based on distributed polarization coupling detection in polarization-maintaining fibers (PMFs) was conducted; the PMFs having different lengths and coupling intensities were investigated. It was shown that by setting an appropriate CP, the interference term could be automatically extracted. The relative errors of the extracted coupling intensity were less than 2%. This suggests that our method may have potential applications in interferometric measurement.
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spelling doaj-art-42224e3fc0ff42abbb21bf844e94b7b52025-08-20T02:42:00ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552016-01-01831910.1109/JPHOT.2016.25556257456182Automatic Interference Term Retrieval From Spectral Domain Low-Coherence Interferometry Using the EEMD-EMD-Based MethodHongxia Zhang0Feng Wang1Dagong Jia2Tiegen Liu3Yimo Zhang4College of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, ChinaCollege of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, ChinaCollege of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, ChinaCollege of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, ChinaCollege of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, ChinaLow-coherence interferometry (LCI) has proved to be a useful tool in optical measurement and detection. However, the noise that is present in practical applications makes interference term retrieval (ITR) difficult. In this paper, we propose a novel technique based on ensemble empirical mode decomposition and empirical mode decomposition (EEMD-EMD) to achieve automatic ITR from the spectral domain LCI. In EEMD, the correlation coefficient of each intrinsic mode function (IMF) is calculated, and a characteristic parameter (CP) is introduced to recognize and remove the IMFs of noisy components. The remaining IMFs are used to reconstruct a new signal followed by EMD to extract the interference term. An experiment based on distributed polarization coupling detection in polarization-maintaining fibers (PMFs) was conducted; the PMFs having different lengths and coupling intensities were investigated. It was shown that by setting an appropriate CP, the interference term could be automatically extracted. The relative errors of the extracted coupling intensity were less than 2%. This suggests that our method may have potential applications in interferometric measurement.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7456182/low-coherence interferometryensemble empirical mode decompositionempirical mode decompositioninterference term retrieval
spellingShingle Hongxia Zhang
Feng Wang
Dagong Jia
Tiegen Liu
Yimo Zhang
Automatic Interference Term Retrieval From Spectral Domain Low-Coherence Interferometry Using the EEMD-EMD-Based Method
IEEE Photonics Journal
low-coherence interferometry
ensemble empirical mode decomposition
empirical mode decomposition
interference term retrieval
title Automatic Interference Term Retrieval From Spectral Domain Low-Coherence Interferometry Using the EEMD-EMD-Based Method
title_full Automatic Interference Term Retrieval From Spectral Domain Low-Coherence Interferometry Using the EEMD-EMD-Based Method
title_fullStr Automatic Interference Term Retrieval From Spectral Domain Low-Coherence Interferometry Using the EEMD-EMD-Based Method
title_full_unstemmed Automatic Interference Term Retrieval From Spectral Domain Low-Coherence Interferometry Using the EEMD-EMD-Based Method
title_short Automatic Interference Term Retrieval From Spectral Domain Low-Coherence Interferometry Using the EEMD-EMD-Based Method
title_sort automatic interference term retrieval from spectral domain low coherence interferometry using the eemd emd based method
topic low-coherence interferometry
ensemble empirical mode decomposition
empirical mode decomposition
interference term retrieval
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7456182/
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