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Bipolar optical pulse coding for performance enhancement in BOTDA sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

A pump signal based on bipolar pulse coding and single-sideband suppressed-carried (SSB-SC) modulation is proposed for Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) sensors. Making a sequential use of the Brillouin gain and loss spectra, the technique is ...

Optical Society of America2013

MEMS Tunable Asymmetric Fabry-Perot Cavity for High-Precision Weighing of Macro Samples

Luc Thévenaz, Yves-Alain Peter, Alexandre Poulin

We propose a microelectromechanical systems-based tunable asymmetric Fabry-Perot cavity for the high-precision weighing of macro samples. The device is based on an in-plane design and is structured in a silicon-on-insulator substrate. The cavity length of ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Time gated phase-correlation distributed Brillouin fibre sensor

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov

A random access distributed Brillouin fibre sensor is presented, based on phase modulation using a pseudo-random bit sequence (PRBS) together with time gating. The standard phase-correlation technique is known to show a noise level increasing linearly with ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2013

Long-range and high-resolution distributed Brillouin fiber sensors | Capteur Brillouin réparti à fibre optique à haute résolution et longue portée

Luc Thévenaz, Duc Minh Nguyen

Brillouin-based distributed optical fiber sensors have been the subject of intense research in recent years because they offer a unique solution for continuous, real-time monitoring in civil engineering and petroleum industry. These sensors provide strain ...

2013

Modeling and evaluating the performance of Brillouin distributed optical fiber sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

A thorough analysis of the key factors impacting on the performance of Brillouin distributed optical fiber sensors is presented. An analytical expression is derived to estimate the error on the determination of the Brillouin peak gain frequency, based for ...

Optical Society of America2013

Brillouin distributed fibre sensing using phase modulated probe

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Xin Lu

A novel configuration for a Brillouin distributed sensor using a phase modulated probe is presented. It offers the combined advantages of a direct implementation using simple devices and a large immunity to noise, shifting the information from the baseband ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2013

Sensing systems and methods for distributed Brillouin sensing

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin

According to the present invention there is provided methods of performing a distributing sensing measurement, comprising the steps of, modulating the frequency of one or more light signals output from one or more light sources, using one or more multi-lev ...

World Intellectual Property Organization2013

Highly tunable method to generate sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses from a rectangular frequency comb

Luc Thévenaz, Mohammad Mehdi Alem Karladani, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Camille Sophie Brès, Mohammad Amin Shoaie

A method to produce highly-stable optical sinc-shaped pulses is proposed based on the generation of a rectangular-spectrum frequency comb. Nyquist pulses with

OSA2013

Highly Sensitive Dispersion Map Extraction from Highly Nonlinear Fibers Using BOTDA Probing of Parametric Amplification

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov, Fatemeh Alishahi, Camille Sophie Brès

Using an enhanced scheme for probing the distribution of parametric processes along fibers, a rapid and simple technique to map zero dispersion wavelength fluctuations of less than 0.02 nm with 2 meters resolution is demonstrated. ...

2013

Mitigating modulation instability in Brillouin distributed fibre sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Mohammad Mehdi Alem Karladani, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Wei Chen

A thorough study of the generation of modulation instability (MI) in distributed Brillouin fibre sensors is presented. ASE noise co-propagating with the pump pulses within the MI gain spectrum has been identified to be an important factor seeding modulatio ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2013

Mapping Dispersion Fluctuations along Optical Fibers Using Brillouin Probing and a Fast Analytic Calculation

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov, Fatemeh Alishahi, Camille Sophie Brès

A simple analytic formula is derived to extract tiny dispersion fluctuations along highly nonlinear fibers from distributed measurements of parametric gain. A refined BOTDA scheme, suitable to track Kerr processes, enables low noise measurements. ...

2013

All-optical signal processing using dynamic Brillouin gratings

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov

The manipulation of dynamic Brillouin gratings in optical fibers is demonstrated to be an extremely flexible technique to achieve, with a single experimental setup, several all-optical signal processing functions. In particular, all-optical time differenti ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

Optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses of exceptional quality

Luc Thévenaz, Mohammad Mehdi Alem Karladani, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Camille Sophie Brès, Mohammad Amin Shoaie

Sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses possess a rectangular spectrum, enabling data to be encoded in a minimum spectral bandwidth and satisfying by essence the Nyquist criterion of zero inter-symbol interference (ISI). This property makes them very attractive for com ...

Nature Research2013

Generation of Nyquist sinc pulses using intensity modulators

Luc Thévenaz, Mohammad Mehdi Alem Karladani, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Camille Sophie Brès, Mohammad Amin Shoaie

Optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses are produced based on the generation of an ideal frequency comb using cascaded intensity modulators. Nyquist pulses with 9.8-ps temporal width, 82-fs jitter and more than 40 dB SNR are achieved. ...

2013

Fiber sensing system based on a bragg grating and optical time domain reflectometry

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin

Optic fiber sensor characterized in that the sensing fiber is provided with a continuous Bragg grating covering the entire fiber length which is dedicated to sensing and along which spatially resolved measurements are performed. ...

World Intellectual Property Organization2013

Optical Nyquist-pulse generation with a power difference to the ideal sinc-shape sequence of < 1%

Luc Thévenaz, Mohammad Mehdi Alem Karladani, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Camille Sophie Brès, Mohammad Amin Shoaie

Sinc-shaped Nyquist-pulses possess a rectangular spectrum. Thus, a sinc-pulse transmission minimizes the carrier spacing down to the baud rate, and therefore, substantially increases the transmissible data rates. These perspectives have led to a strong res ...

VDE Verlag GmbH2013

Colour simplex coding for brillouin distributed sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

The possibility to customize Simplex coding for long range Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analysis is demonstrated by “colouring” the sequences in the frequency domain. The coding gain is identical to the traditional intensity-modulated Simplex code, though ...

2013

Advanced Pulse Coding Techniques for Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

Advanced optical pulse coding methods to enhance the performance of distributed optical fiber sensors are reviewed. In particular, the latest implementations dedicated to high-performance long-range Raman and Brillouin based distributed sensing are describ ...

2013

Generation and application of dynamic gratings in optical fibers using stimulated Brillouin scattering

Luc Thévenaz, Nikolay Primerov

Since the invention of optical fiber cable data transmission using light has become ubiquitous in the past years. Nonlinear optical effects, which are hardly noticed in our daily life, have become crucial and highly influential for the design and performan ...

EPFL2013

Long fiber Bragg grating sensor interrogation using discrete-time microwave photonic filtering techniques

Luc Thévenaz

A novel technique for interrogating photonic sensors based on long fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) is presented and experimentally demonstrated, dedicated to detect the presence and the precise location of several spot events. The principle of operation is bas ...

Optical Society of America2013

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