Reconstruction technique for stimulated Brillouin scattering distributed fiber-optic sensors

Optical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2186-2194

  Bernini, Romeo ^a   Minardo, Aldo ^b   Zeni, Luigi ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brillouin scattering; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber measurements; Strain measurements; Temperature measurements

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

HARMONIC EXPANSIONS;

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 0036754776     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1497176     Document Type: Article

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