Hydraulic engineering built in the cold region, such as reservoirs and hydropower stations, is often threatened by static ice pressure from nature. Therefore, it is of vital significance to research the pressure variation in the growth and melting processes of the ice layer for the design and protection of hydraulic structures in cold regions. This paper introduces an optical fiber sensor system based on the fiber loop ring-down spectroscopy technology and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) pulse modulation technology. An electro-optic modulation scheme that relied on FPGA to generate optical pulses with adjustable pulse width and period is proposed, which is more suitable for the in-situ observation. In addition, the temperature stability and repeatability of the system are also discussed. This system was applied to the real-time detection of static ice pressure on the sidewall and bottom of the polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe during the ice growth and melting processes. The results indicate that the system has favorable stability and sensitivity, and the relationship obtained between the static ice pressure and temperature could provide some references for the field application in the future.

A distributed optical fiber temperature measurement system with a high spatial resolution was designed to overcome the shortcomings of the existing vertical profile temperature measurement technology for winter ice cover. The measurement principle and overall structure of the system were introduced, and the deconvolution correction algorithm was proposed to avoid the inaccurate temperature measurement caused by the limited bandwidth of the system, thereby enhancing the spatial resolution. At the same time, the relevant temperature measurement experiments were carried out. The algorithm could improve the spatial resolution of the system from 1.3 m to 0.5 m under the premise of ensuring the accuracy of temperature measurement. On this basis, a temperature measurement device with a high vertical resolution was designed, which could accurately detect the temperature change in the vertical direction of the ice cover to achieve the purpose of identifying the thickness of the ice cover.