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Fabrication of all-fibre gas reference cells for laser frequency stabilization

Luc Thévenaz, Isabelle Dicaire, Kenny Hey Tow

2014

Microwave photonics filtering technique for interrogating long weak fiber Bragg grating sensors

Luc Thévenaz

A system to interrogate photonic sensors based on long weak fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) is presented and experimentally demonstrated, dedicated to measure the precise location of several spot events. The principle of operation is based on a technique used ...

SPIE2014

Towards 1’000’000 resolved points in a distributed optical fibre sensor

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

Increasing the number of resolved points, by either improving the spatial resolution or extending the measurement range, is one of the main challenges being currently faced in distributed optical fibre sensing. This paper explores the main parameters affec ...

SPIE2014

Effect of Dispersion Fluctuations on Longitudinal Gain Evolution in Phase-Sensitive Parametric Amplifiers

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

A Brillouin probing method is proposed to extract the distribution of signal power along phase-sensitive parametric amplifiers. Operation near the zero-dispersion-wavelength shows enhanced sensitivity to dispersion fluctuations, allowing effective extracti ...

2014

Weak fiber Bragg grating cascade sensor interrogation using microwave photonic filtering techniques

Luc Thévenaz

A microwave photonic technique is presented to interrogate a 5 m-long fiber, containing 9 mm-long weak FBGs having 10 mm grating separation, used as a distributed sensor. Hot-spots as small as 20 cm have been measured with an accuracy of 0.5 cm ...

OSA2014

Versatile frequency reference laser based on modulation sideband locking in an all-fibre configuration

Luc Thévenaz, Kenny Hey Tow

2014

Next generation of optical fibre sensors: new concepts and perspectives

Luc Thévenaz

Fibre sensing has reached an interesting turning point today: a clearer assessment about promises that were really held and those that failed to convince can be envisioned. A choice of key fibre sensing techniques will be reviewed and a critical discussion ...

SPIE2014

1’000’000 resolved points along a Brillouin distributed fibre sensor

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov

The challenge to resolve a record of one million points along a single optical fibre is demonstrated using a Brillouin distributed fibre sensor. The proposed system is based on a phase-correlation technique combined with a temporal pump gating, making poss ...

SPIE2014

Time and frequency pump-probe multiplexing to enhance the signal response of Brillouin optical time-domain analyzers

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Li Zhang

A technique to enhance the response and performance of Brillouin distributed fiber sensors is proposed and experimentally validated. The method consists in creating a multi-frequency pump pulse interacting with a matching multi-frequency continuous-wave pr ...

Optical Society of America2014

Enhanced response in Brillouin distributed optical fibre sensors by simultaneous time and frequency pump multiplexing

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Li Zhang

A technique to enhance the response of Brillouin distributed sensors is proposed and experimentally validated. The method consists in creating a multi-frequency pump pulse interacting with a multi-frequency continuous-wave probe. The power of each pulse at ...

SPIE2014

Power evolution along phase-sensitive parametric amplifiers: an experimental survey

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov, Fatemeh Alishahi, Camille Sophie Brès, Thi Minh Phuong Hoang

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a method based on Brillouin optical time-domain analysis to measure the longitudinal signal power distribution along phase-sensitive fiber-optical parametric amplifiers (PS-FOPAs). Experimental results show that th ...

Optical Soc Amer2014

Novel technique for distributed fibre sensing based on faint long gratings (FLOGs)

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin

A novel approach for fibre distributed sensing is proposed, conceived to match as closely as possible to an ideally responding distributed sensor. It is demonstrated that it can be actually realized using fibre Bragg gratings of extremely low index contras ...

SPIE2014

Brillouin distributed fiber sensors: Practical limitations and guidelines for the making of a good sensor

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

By analyzing the fundamentals of the operation of Brillouin sensors it will be shown that all efforts must be focused on obtaining the largest signal-to-noise ratio on the raw optical signal, which ultimately scales all performance of the sensor. Guideline ...

IEEE2014

Distributed Measurement of Signal Power Evolution in a Phase Sensitive Parametric Amplifier

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

A method to measure the signal power evolution along phase-sensitive parametric amplifiers is proposed using Brillouin optical time-domain analysis. Different evolutions along the fiber are reported by varying input wave phases, including amplification and ...

OSA2014

MilliKelvin resolution in cryogenic temperature distributed fibre sensing based on coherent Rayleigh scattering

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Xin Lu

The response of a distributed temperature sensor based on coherent Rayleigh scattering is experimentally studied in the temperature range from 77 K up to 300 K, using fibres with standard and ORMOCER coating. A precise and absolute frequency scan is perfor ...

SPIE2014

Minimizing distortion and enlarging group delay in Brillouin slow light systems by gain profile optimization

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Li Zhang

Optimal gain spectra minimizing distortion and enhancing delaying efficiency in linear slow light systems are predicted and experimentally validated by shaping the gain spectral profile in a Brillouin fiber amplifier. ...

Optical Society of America2014

Modelling the depletion length induced by modulation instability in distributed optical fibre sensors

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

An analytical model for the depletion length of modulation instability in single-mode optical fibres is proposed. The model gives the possibility to determine the maximum sensing distance that distributed optical fibre sensors can reach before being limite ...

SPIE2014

Extending the sensing range of Brillouin optical time-domain analysis up to 325 km combining four optical repeaters

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Flavien Gyger

A novel scheme is proposed to extend the sensing range of Brillouin optical time-domain analyzers (BOTDA). Specially-designed erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) repeaters are located every 65km fiber along the sensing cable to achieve a total sensing leng ...

SPIE2014

Extending the Real Remoteness of Long-Range Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Fiber Analyzers

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

The real remoteness of a distributed optical fiber sensor based on Brillouin optical time-domain analysis is considerably extended in this paper using seeded second-order Raman amplification and optical pulse coding. The presented analysis and the experime ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Dual-pump sweep-free stimulated Brillouin optical distributed sensing method and device

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin

The present invention concerns a Brillouin optical distributed sensing method, comprising steps of: (i) providing a first and a second optical pulsed pump wave (20, 23) and an optical probe wave comprising at least one probe spectral component (26), (ii) d ...

World Intellectual Property Organization2014

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