A reconstruction technique for long-range stimulated Brillouin scattering distributed fibre-optic sensors: Experimental results

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 900-908

  Minardo, Aldo ^a,b   Bernini, Romeo ^b,c   Zeni, Luigi ^a,b   Thevenaz, Luc ^d   Briffod, Fabien ^e  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b INFM   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e Omnisens SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brillouin scattering; Distributed strain sensors; Distributed temperature sensors; Optical fibre sensors

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTIMIZATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

BRILLOUIN MEASUREMENTS; DISTRIBUTED STRAIN SENSORS; DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE SENSORS; FREQUENCY SHIFT;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

OPTICAL FIBER; SENSOR;

EID: 24144445099     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 09570233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/16/4/002     Document Type: Article

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