Fellay, A.Thévenaz, LucFacchini, M.Niklès, M.Robert, P.2008-09-292008-09-292008-09-29199710.1364/OFS.1997.OWD3https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/29940In this paper, we discuss the fundamental limitations of the SBS analysis as a distributed sensing method when the spatial resolution is in the meter range. We also present a novel experimental configuration that reaches the best performances achievable for this kind of sensors.Distributed sensing using stimulated Brillouin scattering : towards ultimate resolutiontext::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper