SBS-based fiber optical sensing using frequency-domain simultaneous tone interrogation

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1729-1735

  Voskoboinik, Asher ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Shamee, Bishara ^a   Nuccio, Scott R ^a   Zhang, Lin ^a   Chitgarha, Mohammadreza ^a   Willner, Alan E ^a   Tur, Moshe ^b  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Brillouin gain spectrum (BGS); Brillouin sensors; frequency domain multiplexing (FDM); optical fiber sensors; stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS)

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN GAIN SPECTRUM; BRILLOUIN SENSORS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; OPTICAL FIBER SENSORS; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PROBES; SENSORS; ULTRASONICS;

STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 79957840699     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2011.2145411     Document Type: Article

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