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Time and frequency pump-probe multiplexing to enhance the signal response of Brillouin optical time-domain analyzers

Soto, Marcelo A.
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Ricchiuti, Amelia Lavinia
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Zhang, Liang
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2014
Optics Express

A technique to enhance the response and performance of Brillouin distributed fiber sensors is proposed and experimentally validated. The method consists in creating a multi-frequency pump pulse interacting with a matching multi-frequency continuous-wave probe. To avoid nonlinear cross-interaction between spectral lines, the method requires that the distinct pump pulse components and temporal traces reaching the photo-detector are subject to wavelength-selective delaying. This way the total pump and probe powers launched into the fiber can be incrementally boosted beyond the thresholds imposed by nonlinear effects. As a consequence of the multiplied pump-probe Brillouin interactions occurring along the fiber, the sensor response can be enhanced in exact proportion to the number of spectral components. The method is experimentally validated in a 50 km-long distributed optical fiber sensor augmented to 3 pump-probe spectral pairs, demonstrating a signal-to-noise ratio enhancement of 4.8 dB.

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research article
DOI
10.1364/OE.22.028584
Web of Science ID

WOS:000345268500081

Author(s)
Soto, Marcelo A.
Ricchiuti, Amelia Lavinia
Zhang, Liang
Barrera, David
Sales, Salvador
Thévenaz, Luc  
Date Issued

2014

Publisher

Optical Society of America

Published in
Optics Express
Volume

22

Issue

23

Start page

28584

End page

28595

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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SCI-STI-LT  
Available on Infoscience
November 15, 2014
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/108881
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