Enhanced sensing performance in long distance brillouin optical time-domain analyzer based on raman amplification: Theoretical and experimental investigation

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1624-1630

  Jia, Xin Hong ^a,b   Rao, Yun Jiang ^a,c   Chang, Liang ^a   Zhang, Chao ^a   Ran, Zeng Ling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b SICHUAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Brillouin optical time domain analyzer; Distributed fiber sensor; Raman amplification; Stimulated Brillouin scattering

Indexed keywords

BI-DIRECTIONAL; BRILLOUIN; BRILLOUIN PUMP; COUPLED EQUATION; DISTRIBUTED FIBER SENSOR; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; EXTINCTION RATIOS; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; LONG DISTANCES; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; RAMAN AMPLIFICATION; SENSING FIBERS; SENSING PERFORMANCE; SENSING SIGNALS; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; TIME DOMAIN;

FIBERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PROBES; PUMPS; SENSORS; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRASONICS;

AMPLIFICATION;

EID: 77952919524     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2010.2046719     Document Type: Article

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