Thévenaz, LucSoto, Marcelo A.2012-12-132012-12-132012-12-13201210.1117/12.975290https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/87426WOS:000313011500361The effect of the characteristics of a generic distributed fiber sensor based on stimulated Brillouin scattering on the amplitude of the response is analyzed and a relation between the measurement noise on the time traces and the error on the determination of the Brillouin frequency shift is established. This makes possible to propose a simple figure-of-merit to fairly compare the performance of Brillouin distributed sensing systems.Stimulated Brillouin scatteringdistributed optical fiber sensortemperature sensingstrain sensingRating the performance of a Brillouin distributed fiber sensortext::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper