Characterization of Brillouin fiber generator and amplifier for optimized working condition of distributed sensors

Optical Fiber Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 304-309

  Ravet, Fabien ^a   Bao, Xiaoyi ^a   Snoddy, Jeff ^a   Li, Yun ^a   Chen, Liang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brillouin fiber amplifier; Brillouin fiber generator; Distributed strain sensor; Distributed temperature sensor; Stimulated Brillouin scattering

Indexed keywords

FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBERS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BRILLOUIN; BRILLOUIN FIBER AMPLIFIERS; DISTRIBUTED SENSOR SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED STRAIN SENSOR; DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE SENSOR; OPTIMUM WORKING CONDITIONS; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING THRESHOLD; TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAINS;

STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 63749100849     PISSN: 10685200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yofte.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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