Distributed fiber temperature and strain sensor using coherent radio-frequency detection of spontaneous Brillouin scattering

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 5928-5932

  Geng, Jihong ^a   Staines, Sean ^a   Blake, Mike ^a   Jiang, Shibin ^a  

^a NP PHOTONICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; PHASE NOISE; STRAIN RATE;

BRILLOUIN FIBER LASERS; DISTRIBUTED FIBER TEMPERATURE; LONG-TERM STABILITY; RADIO-FREQUENCY DETECTION; STRAIN SENSOR;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 35948953184     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.005928     Document Type: Article

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