Impact of loss variations on double-ended distributed temperature sensors based on Raman anti-stokes signal only

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1215-1222

  Soto, Marcelo A ^a   Signorini, Alessandro ^a   Nannipieri, Tiziano ^a   Faralli, Stefano ^a   Bolognini, Gabriele ^b   Di Pasquale, Fabrizio ^a  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distributed optical fiber sensors; optical time domain reflectometry; Raman scattering; temperature sensors

Indexed keywords

ANTI-STOKES; DISTRIBUTED OPTICAL FIBER SENSORS; DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE SENSOR; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; INTERNAL CALIBRATION; LOOP CONFIGURATION; LOSS VARIATION; OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; SENSOR PERFORMANCE; TEMPERATURE OPTICAL; TEMPERATURE RESOLUTION; TEMPERATURE VALUES; WAVELENGTH-DEPENDENT LOSS;

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; RAMAN SCATTERING; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

EID: 84859037248     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2011.2174966     Document Type: Article

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