Signal-to-noise ratio improvement in Brillouin sensing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7503, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Linze, Nicolas ^a   Li, Wenhai ^a   Bao, Xiaoyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fiber Optics sensing; Simplex coding; SNR enhancement; Stimulated Brillouin scattering

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; BRILLOUIN SENSING; FREQUENCY RESOLUTIONS; PULSEWIDTHS; SIMPLEX CODING; SNR ENHANCEMENT; SNR IMPROVEMENT;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SENSORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; ULTRASONICS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 70449338966     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.835133     Document Type: Conference Paper

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