Long-range distributed temperature and strain optical fibre sensor based on the coherent detection of spontaneous Brillouin scattering with in-line Raman amplification

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1082-1090

  Alahbabi, Mohamed N ^a   Cho, Yuh Tat ^a   Newson, Trevor P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brillouin scattering; Distributed fibre optic sensors; Raman scattering; Strain; Temperature

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; OPTICAL FIBERS; RAMAN SCATTERING; STRAIN; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

COHERENT DETECTION; DISTRIBUTED FIBRE-OPTIC SENSORS; RAMAN AMPLIFICATION; RAMAN PUMP;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; RAMAN SCATTERING; STRAIN; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33646169599     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/17/5/S24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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