• DocumentCode
    733444
  • Title

    Distributed temperature and strain sensing using spontaneous Brillouin scattering in optical few-mode fibers

  • Author

    Yi Weng ; Ip, Ezra ; Zhongqi Pan ; Ting Wang

  • Author_Institution
    NEC Labs. America, Inc., Princeton, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A novel approach to achieve simultaneous distributed temperature and strain sensing based on spontaneous Brillouin scattering in few-mode optical fibers is proposed and experimentally investigated, with high sensitivity using heterodyne detection and optical time-domain reflectometry.
  • Keywords
    Brillouin spectra; distributed sensors; fibre optic sensors; heterodyne detection; optical fibre testing; optical time-domain reflectometry; strain measurement; strain sensors; temperature measurement; temperature sensors; distributed strain sensing; distributed temperature sensing; heterodyne detection; optical few-mode fibers; optical time-domain reflectometry; spontaneous Brillouin scattering; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Strain; Temperature sensors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183883