Spatial resolution enhancement in preactivated BOTDA schemes by numerical processing

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1003-1005

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brillouin scattering; Distributed sensor; Fiber optic sensor

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN; DISTRIBUTED SENSOR; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; HIGH RESOLUTION; MEASURED DATA; NUMERICAL PROCESSING; PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL-RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT; SPURIOUS EFFECTS; TIME DOMAIN; WAVE TRANSIENTS;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

IMAGE RESOLUTION;

EID: 84861138955     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2192424     Document Type: Article

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