Single ended brillouin interaction based distributed sensor using a faraday rotating mirror

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2838, Issue , 1996, Pages 124-130

  Heron, N A ^a   Webb, D J ^a   Jackson, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed temperature sensing; Optical fibre sensing; Stimulated Brillouin scattering

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; FIBER OPTICS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

BRILLOUIN; DISTRIBUTED SENSOR; DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE SENSING; OPTICAL FIBRE SENSING; ROTATING MIRRORS; SENSOR SIGNALS; SINGLE-ENDED; TEMPORAL FLUCTUATION;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 78650189934     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.259790     Document Type: Conference Paper

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