Differential Brillouin gain for improving the temperature accuracy and spatial resolution in a long-distance distributed fiber sensor

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 4297-4301

  Dong, Yongkang ^a   Bao, Xiaoyi ^a   Li, Wenhai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BRILLOUIN GAIN; BRILLOUIN GAIN SPECTRUM; BRILLOUIN OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL PULSE WIDTH; DISTRIBUTED FIBER SENSOR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPERATURE ACCURACIES; TEMPERATURE UNCERTAINTIES;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EID: 68749098426     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.004297     Document Type: Article

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