Distributed Brillouin sensing with sub-meter spatial resolution: Modeling and processing

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 7381-7397

  Beugnot, Jean Charles ^a   Tur, Moshe ^b   Mafang, Stella Foaleng ^a   Thévenaz, Luc ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; DATA HANDLING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PUMPS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

ANALYTIC SOLUTION; BRILLOUIN; BRILLOUIN SENSING; COUPLED WAVE EQUATIONS; DISTRIBUTED SENSING; ECHO EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; MEASURED DATA; PERTURBATION METHOD; POST PROCESSING; PUMP PULSE; PUMPING SCHEMES; SIGNAL AMPLITUDE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL PROFILE;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 79953878916     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.007381     Document Type: Article

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