Technique for measuring distributed temperature with 35-cm spatial resolution utilizing the Landau-Placzek ratio

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 873-875

  Kee, H H ^a   Lees, G P ^a   Newson, T P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; INTERFEROMETERS; LASERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SILICA; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

BRILLOUIN BASED DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE SENSING SYSTEM; LANDAU-PLACZEK RATIO; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER; SHORT PULSEWIDTH LASER SOURCE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0034226272     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.853531     Document Type: Article

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