Classical configurations of Brillouin distributed optical fibre sensors show a spatial resolution limited by the phonon lifetime to 1 meter. Novel approaches can substantially overcome this limit through the prior activation of the acoustic wave.
Title
Advanced Brillouin-based distributed optical fibre sensors with sub-meter scale spatial resolution
Published in
36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication
Pages
1-6
Conference
36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication - (ECOC 2010), Torino, Italy, 19-23 09 2010
Date
2010
Publisher
IEEE
Note
Invited paper
Record creation date
2010-12-07