Rating the performance of a Brillouin distributed fiber sensor

Luc Thévenaz; Marcelo A. Soto

doi:10.1117/12.975290

7 November 2012 Rating the performance of a Brillouin distributed fiber sensor

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo A. Soto

Proceedings Volume 8421, OFS2012 22nd International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors; 8421A7 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.975290
Event: OFS2012 22nd International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensor, 2012, Beijing, China

Abstract

The 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.

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Luc Thévenaz and Marcelo A. Soto "Rating the performance of a Brillouin distributed fiber sensor", Proc. SPIE 8421, OFS2012 22nd International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, 8421A7 (7 November 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.975290

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