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Distributed Acoustic Impedance Measurement Based On Forward Stimulated Brillouin Scattering

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Desmond Chow Ming Chia, Zhisheng Yang

A technique to measure the local spectrum of forward stimulated Brillouin scattering (FSBS) along a standard optical fiber is proposed. The local acoustic impedance of surrounding material is retrieved from the measured FSBS resonance linewidth. ...

Optical Society of America2018

Hybrid Coding Scheme for Brillouin Optical Time-domain Analysis Based on Golay and Differential Pulses

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Zhisheng Yang, Zonglei Li

A hybrid Golay coding method based on differential pulse-pair sequences is proposed for distributed Brillouin sensing. The method provides 1.5 dB signal-to-noise ratio improvement over unipolar Golay with halved measurement time, securing high spatial reso ...

Optical Society of America2018

High-Resolution Distributed Differential Curvature Measurement Based on Phase-Sensitive Optical Time Domain Reflectometry and Multi-Core Fiber

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Zhisheng Yang, Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

A distributed curvature sensor based on multicore fiber and phase-sensitive optical time domain reflectometry is presented, demonstrating a resolution of 10 cm over ~25 m of sensing range. ...

Optical Society of America2018

Impact of Fitting and Digital Filtering on Signal-to-Noise Ratio and Brillouin Frequency Shift Uncertainty of BOTDA Measurements

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Zhisheng Yang

The intricate relationships linking signal-to-noise ratio and Brillouin frequency shift uncertainty after post-processing of Brillouin optical time-domain analysis measurements are investigated, highlighting the crucial impact of fitting. ...

OSA2018

Design rules for Unipolar Unicolor Coded Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analysis

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Zhisheng Yang, Zonglei Li

The performance of unipolar unicolor coded Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) is thoroughly studied, providing quantitative guidelines to design a distortion-free coded BOTDA system operating at maximum signal-to-noise ratio. ...

Optical Society of America2018

Distributed forward Brillouin sensor based on local light phase recovery

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Desmond Chow Ming Chia, Zhisheng Yang

The distributed fibre sensing technology based on backward stimulated Brillouin scattering (BSBS) is experiencing a rapid development. However, all reported implementations of distributed Brillouin fibre sensors until today are restricted to detecting phys ...

Nature Research2018

Local activation of surface and hybrid acoustic waves in optical microwires

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Desmond Chow Ming Chia

Elastic vibrations in subwavelength structures have gained importance recently in fundamental light–matter studies and various optoacoustic applications. Existing techniques have revealed the presence of distinct acoustic resonances inside silica microwire ...

2018

All-optical flip-flop based on dynamic Brillouin gratings

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov

One of the most essential building blocks in modem electronics is the flip-flop. A flip-flop operates bi-stably between two states, remaining at a given output level (high or low level) until a specific input control signal changes. For many years, photoni ...

IEEE2017

Analytical expression and experimental validation of the Brillouin gain spectral broadening at any sensing spatial resolution

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

A novel and simple analytical expression to describe the Brillouin gain spectral broadening as a function of the spatial resolution in time-domain Brillouin distributed fiber sensors is deduced. The proposed model is experimentally validated using a pump-p ...

Ieee2017

Frequency-domain technique to measure the inertial response of forward stimulated Brillouin scattering for acoustic impedance sensing

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Desmond Chow Ming Chia

A frequency-domain method is proposed to measure the inertial response of forward stimulated Brillouin scattering, so that the acoustic impedance of a liquid medium outside an uncoated 30 m standard single-mode fibre can be sensed. The proposed technique o ...

SPIE2017

Temperature-strain discrimination in distributed optical fiber sensing using phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Xin Lu

A method based on coherent Rayleigh scattering distinctly evaluating temperature and strain is proposed and experimentally demonstrated for distributed optical fiber sensing. Combining conventional phase-sensitive optical time-domain domain reflectometry ( ...

Optical Society of America2017

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

Temperature sensitivity enhancement in a standard optical fiber with double coatings at low temperature

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Xin Lu

The thermomechanical behavior of a standard optical fiber with double coating is theoretically analyzed at room temperature and ~ 220 K. As the primary coating becomes stiffer at low temperature, the impact of the thermal expansion of the coatings is no lo ...

Ieee2017

Polarisation pulling in Brillouin optical time-domain analysers

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

The impact of Brillouin scattering on the polarisation of pump and probe in a Brillouin optical-time domain analyser is investigated. Experimental results indicate that the Brillouin interaction integrated along the entire sensing fibre produces a polarisa ...

Ieee2017

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

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Zhiyong Zhao

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

Highly-sensitive distributed birefringence measurements based on a two-pulse interrogation of a dynamic Brillouin grating

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov

A method for distributed birefringence measurements is proposed based on the interference pattern generated by the interrogation of a dynamic Brillouin grating (DBG) using two short consecutive optical pulses. Compared to existing DBG interrogation techniq ...

Ieee2017

Discrimination of temperature and strain by combined refractive index and birefringence measurements using coherent Rayleigh sensing

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Xin Lu

Temperature and strain discrimination is experimentally demonstrated in an elliptical-core polarization-maintaining fiber by making use of Rayleigh-based distributed birefringence measurements and the frequency shift of the correlation peak obtained by sta ...

SPIE2017

Image and video denoising for distributed optical fibre sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

A technique based on a multi-dimensional signal processing approach is here described for performance enhancement of distributed optical fibre sensors. In particular, the main features of linear and nonlinear image denoising techniques are described for si ...

Ieee2017

Resolving 1 million sensing points in an optimized differential time-domain Brillouin sensor

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

A differential pulse-width pair (DPP) Brillouin distributed fiber sensor is implemented to achieve centimetric spatial resolution over distances of several kilometers. The presented scheme uses a scanning method in which the spectral separation between the ...

Optical Society of America2017

Closed-loop Controlled Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Analysis

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Zhisheng Yang

A closed-loop controlled BOTDA distributed optical fibre sensor is proposed for tracking fast temperature-strain evolution. The measurement time is reduced by two orders of magnitude with respect to classical BOTDA sensing, while keeping the same accuracy ...

IEEE2017

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