Advanced Brillouin-based distributed optical fibre sensors with sub-meter scale spatial resolution

European Conference on Optical Communication, ECOC

Volumn 1-2, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Thévenaz, Luc ^a   Foaleng, Stella M ^a   Song, Kwang Yong ^a,b   Chin, Sanghoon ^a   Primerov, Nikolay ^a   Beugnot, Jean Charles ^a   Tur, Moshe ^a,c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN; DISTRIBUTED OPTICAL FIBRE SENSORS; METER SCALE; PHONON LIFETIMES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ACOUSTICS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SENSORS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 78650605349     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621288     Document Type: Conference Paper

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