Numerical analysis of single pulse and differential pulse-width pair BOTDA systems in the high spatial resolution regime

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 19233-19244

  Minardo, Aldo ^a   Bernini, Romeo ^b   Zeni, Luigi ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); IMAGE RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

BRILLOUIN GAIN SPECTRUM; BRILLOUIN OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; PULSE CHARACTERISTICS; PULSEWIDTHS; SINGLE PULSE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 80053247098     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.019233     Document Type: Article

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