Brillouin optical time-domain analysis assisted by second-order Raman amplification

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 18769-18778

  Martin Lopez, Sonia ^a,b   Alcon Camas, Mercedes ^c   Rodriguez, Felix ^a   Corredera, Pedro ^a   Ania Castañon, Juan Diego ^b   Thévenaz, Luc ^d   Gonzalez Herraez, Miguel ^e  

^a Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

^c ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d STI GR SCI   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PUMPS; TRANSPARENCY;

BRILLOUIN; BRILLOUIN OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; RAMAN AMPLIFICATION; RAMAN PUMP; RAMAN PUMPING; RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE; SECOND ORDERS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

GLASS FIBER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77956382718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.018769     Document Type: Article

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