Accurate strain detection and localisation with the distributed brillouin sensor based on a phenomenological signal processing approach

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6176, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ravet, Fabien ^a   Bao, Xiaoyi ^a   Zou, Lufan ^a   Yu, Quinrong ^a   Li, Yun ^a   Kalosha, Vladimir ^a   Chen, Liang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed Sensing; Optical Fibres; Signal processing; Stimulated Brillouin Scattering; Structural Health Monitoring

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SENSING; PULSE SPECTRUM; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; DATA ACQUISITION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRAIN CONTROL;

SENSORS;

EID: 33749546416     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.663995     Document Type: Conference Paper

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