Influence of modulation instability on distributed optical fiber sensors based on spontaneous Brillouin scattering

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1156-1160

  Alahbabi, Mohamed N ^a   Cho, Yuh Tat ^a   Newson, Trevor P ^a   Wait, Peter C ^b   Hartog, Arthur H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Sensa   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; LIGHT MODULATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SELF PHASE MODULATION; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

DISTRIBUTED OPTICAL FIBER SENSORS; MODULATION INSTABILITY; SPONTANEOUS BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 4043116175     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.001156     Document Type: Article

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