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Study on the possibility of Φ-OTDR sensing in hollow-core fibres

Luc Thévenaz, Malak Mohamed Hossameldeen Omar Mohamed Galal, Yuting Yang

The backscattering process in hollow core fibres shows a large similarity with Rayleigh scattering, offering the potential to be exploited for distributed sensing. A classical Φ-OTDR implementation is used to observe the backscattering signal from the surf ...

SPIE2023

Dual-pump push-pull polarization control using stimulated Brillouin scattering

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov

Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) amplification of probe signals is highly polarization dependent. Maximum and minimum gain values are associated with a pair of orthogonal states of polarization (SOP), which are related to the pump SOP. Since the maxim ...

Optical Society of America2011

All-optical flip-flops based on dynamic Brillouin gratings in fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov

A method to generate an all-optical flip-flop is proposed and experimentally demonstrated based on dynamic Brillouin gratings (DBGs) in polarization maintaining fibers. In a fiber with sufficiently uniform birefringence, this flip-flop can provide extremel ...

Optical Society of America2017

Zero-gain slow and fast light propagation in an optical fiber

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin

Slow and fast light with null amplification or loss of a light signal is experimentally demonstrated. This novel method for producing zero-gain slow and fast light takes advantage of the great flexibility of stimulated Brillouin scattering in optical fiber ...

2006

Exploring the use of native spider silk as an optical fibre for chemical sensing

Luc Thévenaz, Kenny Hey Tow, Isabelle Dicaire, Desmond Chow Ming Chia

A spider uses up to seven different types of silk, all having specific functions, as building material, weapon and sensory organ to detect the presence of preys on its web. Recently, scientists have put under the limelight the extraordinary properties of t ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2018

Molecular relaxation effects in hydrogen chloride photoacoustic detection

Luc Thévenaz, Jean-Philippe Besson

A photoacoustic (PA) sensor has been developed to monitor hydrogen chloride at sub-ppm level in the 1740-nm region. The system was designed to control the process in the novel low-water-peak optical fiber manufacturing process. Relaxation effects in hydrog ...

Springer Verlag2008

Towards highest spectral efficiency: Optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses generation from rectangular frequency comb

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

In this paper, we review a method to produce optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses with unprecedented quality. The method is based on the synthesis of a rectangular shaped and phase-locked frequency comb from a combination of intensity modulators. The result ...

IEEE2014

Sub-ppm multi-gas photoacoustic sensor

Luc Thévenaz, Jean-Philippe Besson

A photoacoustic multi-gas sensor using tuneable laser diodes in the near-infrared region is reported. An optimized resonant configuration based on an acoustic longitudinal mode is described. Automatic tracking of the acoustic resonance frequency using a pi ...

Elsevier2006

Demonstration of distributed shape sensing based on Brillouin scattering in multi-core fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

In this paper we demonstrate distributed shape sensing based on stimulated Brillouin scattering in a multi-core fiber (MCF). Brillouin optical time-domain analysis with differential pulse-width pairs is implemented to measure the local tangential strain-in ...

Ieee2017

High-resolution Brillouin fiber sensing using random phase coding of the pump and probe waves

Luc Thévenaz, Nikolay Primerov

Distributed temperature measurements with 1.2 cm resolution based on stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in standard fibers are reported. High resolution is achieved by phase-coding both pump and probe waves with a high-rate, pseudo-random binary phase c ...

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)2012

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

Spectral Properties of the Signal in Phase-Sensitive Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry with Direct Detection

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Li Zhang, Xin Lu

The spectral properties of the Rayleigh backscattered traces measured by a phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometer (øOTDR) with direct detection are theoretically and experimentally analyzed. The spectrum of the measured øOTDR signal is found to ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Observation of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Silicon Nitride Integrated Waveguides

Luc Thévenaz, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Jijun He, Arslan Sajid Raja, Flavien Gyger, Fan Yang

Silicon nitride (Si3N4) has emerged as a promising material for integrated nonlinear photonics and has been used for broadband soliton microcombs and low-pulse-energy supercontinuum generation. Therefore, understanding all nonlinear optical properties of S ...

2020

High spatial resolution distributed sensing in optical fibers by Brillouin gain-profile tracing

Luc Thévenaz

A novel BOTDA technique for distributed sensing of the Brillouin frequency in optical fibers with cm-order spatial resolution is proposed. The technique is based upon a simple modulation scheme, requiring only a single long pump pulse for acoustic excitati ...

Optical Society of America2010

“Slow Light” in stimulated Brillouin scattering: on the influence of the spectral width of pump radiation on the group index: Comment

Luc Thévenaz

In a recent paper by Kovalev et al [Optics Express 17, 17317 (2009)] the coupled equations describing stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) were solved in the Fourier domain. The main conclusion driven by the authors was that SBS pump spectral broadening w ...

Optical Society of America2010

Polarization pulling based on stimulated Brillouin scattering in a dual-pump configuration

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov

Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) amplification of probe signals is highly polarization dependent. Maximum and minimum gain values are associated with a pair of orthogonal states of polarization (SOP) at the fiber output. Since the maximum gain is much ...

SPIE2011

Spun fibres: a quasi circularly birefringent medium

Luc Thévenaz, Ana Gabriela Correa Mena, Xu Cheng

A simplified model describing the polarisation characteristics of spun fibres is proposed, aiming at determining how close to a circularly birefringent medium such a fibre is. This is of crucial importance regarding the interest of such a medium for magnet ...

SPIE2023

Distributed phase birefringence measurements based on polarization correlation in phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometers

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Xin Lu

In this paper a technique to measure the distributed birefringence profile along optical fibers is proposed and experimentally validated. The method is based on the spectral correlation between two sets of orthogonally-polarized measurements acquired using ...

Optical Society of America2015

All-optical calculus based on dynamic Brillouin grating reflectors in optical fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov

We experimentally demonstrate that all-optical signal calculus can be realized based on dynamic Brillouin gratings in optical fibers. Temporal integration and first-order differentiation were performed for optical pulse with various waveforms. ...

Optical Society of America2011

All-Optical Self-Synchronizing Scheme for Contention Resolution in Asynchronous Optical Packet Switched Networks Using Continuously Tunable Optical Delay Line

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin

Continuously tunable, optically-controlled variable delay line based on dynamic Brillouin grating is exploited for automated synchronization of switching signals in a network node, enabling asynchronous contention resolution with packet priorization. ...

Optical Society of America2011