Dependence of the brillouin gain spectrum on linear strain distribution for optical time-domain reflectometer-type strain sensors

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 34, 2002, Pages 7212-7217

  Naruse, Hiroshi ^a   Tateda, Mitsuhiro ^b   Ohno, Hiroshige ^a   Shimada, Akiyoshi ^a  

^a NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; FUNCTIONS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; REFLECTOMETERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRAIN; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETERS;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0036901978     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.007212     Document Type: Article

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