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Detrimental effect of self-phase modulation on the performance of Brillouin distributed fiber sensors |
Optics Letters, Vol. 36, Issue 2, pp. 97-99 (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.36.000097
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Abstract
We show that the spectral broadening of the pump pulse through self-phase modulation in a time-domain distributed Brillouin sensor has a considerably detrimental effect in the measurement, especially in the case of long distances and high-resolution pulses. Using
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OCIS Codes
(060.2370) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics sensors
(190.2640) Nonlinear optics : Stimulated scattering, modulation, etc.
(190.3270) Nonlinear optics : Kerr effect
(190.4370) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, fibers
(290.5900) Scattering : Scattering, stimulated Brillouin
ToC Category:
Nonlinear Optics
History
Original Manuscript: October 20, 2010
Revised Manuscript: December 1, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: December 2, 2010
Published: January 6, 2011
Citation
Stella M. Foaleng, Félix Rodríguez-Barrios, Sonia Martin-Lopez, Miguel González-Herráez, and Luc Thévenaz, "Detrimental effect of self-phase modulation on the performance of Brillouin distributed fiber sensors," Opt. Lett. 36, 97-99 (2011)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-36-2-97
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