Signal to noise and range enhancement of a Brillouin intensity based temperature sensor

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2656-2661

  De Souza, K ^a   Newson, T P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTODETECTORS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ERBIUM-DOPED PREAMPLIFIER SYSTEM (EDFA); FIBER OPTICS AMPLIFIERS AND OSCILLATORS; SINGLE-PASS FIBER-OPTIC MACH ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER (SPMZ); TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 4644221137     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.002656     Document Type: Article

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