Title :
SBS remote and spatially-resolved monitoring of the state of polarization in optical fibers
Author :
Texier, Sylvain ; Pattnaik, Radha ; Toulouse, Jean
Author_Institution :
Civil Eng. Dept., Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA
Abstract :
A new technique is demonstrated that allows remote monitoring of the distributed state of polarization along a fiber. The technique is based on the stimulated Brillouin Scattering of a pulsed pump and a cw probe
Keywords :
optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; stimulated Brillouin scattering; SBS; cw probe; optical fiber polarization state; pulsed pump; remote monitoring; stimulated Brillouin Scattering;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
