Development of highly stable BOTDR strain sensor employing microwave heterodyne detection and tunable electric oscillator

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4596, Issue , 2001, Pages 74-85

  Ohno, Hiroshige ^a   Naruse, Hiroshi ^a   Yasue, Norifumi ^a   Miyajima, Yoshiaki ^a   Uchiyama, Haruyoshi ^b   Sakairi, Yoshiyuki ^b   Li, Zhi Xien ^b  

^a NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

^b Ando Electric Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brillouin scattering; Concrete structures; Crack; Distributed sensing; Electric oscillator; Heterodyne detection; Optical fiber sensor; Strain

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; HETERODYNING; LIGHT REFLECTION; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); REFLECTOMETERS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BRILLOUIN OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETERS (BOTDR); DISTRIBUTED SENSING;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0035770755     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.447327     Document Type: Article

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