Signal processing technique for distributed Brillouin sensing at centimeter spatial resolution

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3610-3618

  Ravet, Fabien ^a   Bao, Xiaoyi ^b   Li, Yun ^b   Yu, Quinrong ^b   Yale, Alexander ^b   Kalosha, Vladimir P ^b   Chen, Liang ^b  

^a Omnisens SA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed sensors; Fiber optics sensors; Numerical approximation and analysis; Signal processing; Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS); Structural health monitoring

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

DISTRIBUTED BRILLOUIN SENSING; DISTRIBUTED SENSORS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 37249086189     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.906796     Document Type: Article

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