Title :
Advanced Brillouin-based distributed optical fibre sensors with sub-meter scale spatial resolution
Author :
Thévenaz, Luc ; Foaleng, Stella M. ; Song, Kwang-Yong ; Chin, Sanghoon ; Primerov, Nikolay ; Beugnot, Jean-Charles ; Tur, Moshe
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Electr. Eng., EPFL Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
Classical configurations of Brillouin distributed optical fibre sensors show a spatial resolution limited by the phonon lifetime to 1 meter. Novel approaches can substantially overcome this limit through the prior activation of the acoustic wave.
Keywords :
acoustic waves; distributed sensors; fibre optic sensors; Brillouin distributed optical fibre sensors; acoustic wave; phonon lifetime; spatial resolution; submeter scale spatial resolution; Acoustic waves; Brillouin scattering; Optical fibers; Probes; Spatial resolution; Temperature measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Torino
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8536-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8534-5
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621288
