20-km Distributed Temperature Sensor Based on Spontaneous Brillouin Scattering

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1367-1369

  Lecoeuche V ^a   Hathaway, M W ^a   Webb, D J ^a   Pannell, C N ^a   Jackson, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Laser applications; Mode locked lasers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber measurement applications; Temperature measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 17144462255     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.883832     Document Type: Article

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