Long-range distributed Brillouin fiber sensors by use of an unbalanced double sideband probe

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 23845-23856

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

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

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c Consortium for Research on Advanced Remote Sensing Systems ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBES; SENSORS;

ANTI-STOKES; BRILLOUIN; DISTRIBUTED SENSING; DOUBLE-SIDEBAND; FIBER SENSOR; INPUT POWER; NON-LOCAL EFFECT; PUMP DEPLETION; SENSING FIBERS; SINGLE MODE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 82055170138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.023845     Document Type: Article

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