A Novel Detection Method of Brillouin Backscattered Light in Optical Fiber

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 430-434

  Chang, Tianying ^a   Cui, Hong Liang ^a   Koscica, Thomas E ^b   Li, David Y ^b   Jia, Lei ^a   Sui, Qingmei ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brillouin scattering; heterodyne detection; interference

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008020100     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2014413     Document Type: Article

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