• 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