Slope-assisted fast distributed sensing in optical fibers with arbitrary Brillouin profile

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 19845-19854

  Peled, Yair ^a   Motil, Avi ^a   Yaron, Lior ^a   Tur, Moshe ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING;

ADAPTABLE PROBE; ARBITRARY DISTRIBUTION; BRILLOUIN; BRILLOUIN FREQUENCY SHIFTS; BRILLOUIN GAIN SPECTRUM; BRILLOUIN SHIFT; DISTRIBUTED MEASUREMENTS; DISTRIBUTED SENSING; LONG FIBER; NOVEL METHODS; SENSING FIBERS; SINGLE PUMPS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STRAIN VARIATION;

STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 80053948640     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.019845     Document Type: Article

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