High spatial resolution microwave detection system for Brillouin-based distributed temperature and strain sensors

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1539-1543

  Alahbabi, Mohamed N ^a   Lawrence, Nicholas P ^a   Cho, Yuh T ^a   Newson, Trevor P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brillouin scatteringll; Distributed temperature and strain measurements; Optical fibre sensors

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; OPTICAL SENSORS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRAIN; THERMAL EFFECTS;

MICROWAVE DETECTION SYSTEMS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; STRAIN RESOLUTION; STRAIN SENSORS;

MICROWAVES;

SENSOR;

EID: 4043161423     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/15/8/019     Document Type: Article

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