• DocumentCode
    3688321
  • Title

    Performance limit of two-pump brillouin fiber sensors obtained by Manakov Modulation Instability

  • Author

    Mehdi Alem;Marcelo A. Soto;Luc Thevenaz;Javier Urricelqui;Mikel Sagues;Alayn Loayssa

  • Author_Institution
    Group for Fiber Optics, Institute of Electrical Engineering EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology SCI STI LT, Station 11, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    The Manakov modulation instability is shown to determine the performance limit of long-distance Brillouin fiber sensors utilizing orthogonally-polarized pumps. Numerical simulations of the Manakov equation are supported by the experimental measurement of a 25-km Brillouin fiber sensor to verify the model. The study reveals that the use of orthogonally-polarized pulses decreases the pump depletion due to modulation instability leading to an enhancement of the sensing distance.
  • Keywords
    "Optical fiber sensors","Optical fiber polarization","Modulation","Scattering","Optical fiber dispersion"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Spatiotemporal Complexity in Nonlinear Optics (SCNO), 2015
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SCNO.2015.7324006
  • Filename
    7324006
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3688321