DocumentCode
2845487
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
fYear
2010
fDate
19-23 Sept. 2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
6
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
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
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621288
Filename
5621288
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