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Novel technique for distributed fibre sensing based on coherent Rayleigh scattering measurements of birefringence

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Xin Lu

A novel distributed fibre sensing technique is described and experimentally validated, based on birefringence measurements using coherent Rayleigh scattering. It natively provides distributed measurements of temperature and strain with more than an order o ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Optimal detection bandwidth for phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Xin Lu

The spectrum of the temporal traces obtained from a phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometer is theoretically and experimentally analysed, demonstrating its dependence on the incident optical pulse shape. Numerical simulations and theoretical resu ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

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

System and method for producing optical sinc-shaped pulses

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

System and methods for producing a plurality of Sinc shaped pulses in the time domain include a light source for providing an input light signal having an input frequency, and at least one spectrum shaper for producing the plurality of Sinc shaped pulses f ...

United States Patent and Trademark Office2015

Reaching the ultimate performance limit given by non-local effects in BOTDA sensors

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

Non-local effects have been traditionally identified as one of the most limiting factors of the performance of Brillouin optical time-domain analyzers. These phenomena, directly linked with the energy gained/lost by the pump pulse, limit the probe power an ...

SPIE2015

Performance limit of two-pump Brillouin fiber sensors obtained by Manakov modulation instability

Luc Thévenaz, Mohammad Mehdi Alem Karladani, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Javier Urricelqui Polvorinos

The Manakov modulation instability is shown to determine the performance limit of long-distance Brillouin fiber sensors utilizing orthogonally-polarized pumps. Numerical simulations of the Manakov equation are supported by the experimental measurement of a ...

IEEE2015

Shedding light on the optical properties of spider silk fiber

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

Optical characterisation of a Nephila edulis spider dragline silk is performed. The silk fiber transmits light up to 1400 nm with a propagation loss of ∼9 dB/cm and birefringence of 8×10−3 measured at 1302 nm. ...

IEEE2015

Mitigation of modulation instability in Brillouin distributed fiber sensors by using orthogonal polarization pulses

Luc Thévenaz, Mohammad Mehdi Alem Karladani, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Javier Urricelqui Polvorinos

A technique based on the use of orthogonally-polarized pulses is proposed to mitigate the detrimental impact of modulation instability on Brillouin distributed fiber sensors. While the theoretical underpinnings of the method are described by introducing a ...

SPIE2015

Slow Light in Optical Fibers: State-of-the-Art and Perspectives 10 Years After the First Demonstration

Luc Thévenaz

The possibility to directly realize all-optical delay lines in optical fibers has triggered efforts of research during the past decade, with few practical outcomes. The reason is fundamental, caused by the unescapable relation between delay and distortion. ...

IEEE2015

Intensifying Brillouin distributed fibre sensors using image processing

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

Image processing is proposed to enhance the performance of Brillouin distributed fibre sensors. The technique exploits the two-dimensional nature of the measurements, so that each frequency-position pair is assimilated to a pixel of a noisy image. Based on ...

SPIE2015

Optical process and optical device, allowing to avoid unwanted nonlinear effects in an optical fiber

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

The invention concerns a process comprising the following steps: injecting, in an optical fiber, N time limited replica optical signals at distinct frequencies, each replica signal being temporally shifted relative to the other replica signals; then propag ...

2015

Mapping the Uniformity of Optical Microwires Using Phase-Correlation Brillouin Distributed Measurements

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov, Desmond Chow Ming Chia, Kenny Hey Tow, Joël Cabrel Tchahame Nougnihi

The distributed Brillouin gain profile of an ultrathin optical microwire made of chalcogenide-glass is characterized using a phase-modulated correlation-domain measurement technique. Method resolves variations of uniformity below 5% along a 13 cm-long micr ...

OSA2015

Brillouin distributed fiber sensing at ultra-high spatial resolution

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov

Sophisticated techniques have been recently developed to achieve centimetric spatial resolution in distributed Brillouin fibre sensing, by-passing the slow response of this optoacoustic interaction by creating a localized stationary material vibration. Mor ...

IEEE2015

Sources of noise in Brillouin optical time-domain analyzers

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Javier Urricelqui Polvorinos

This paper presents a thorough study of the different sources of noise affecting Brillouin optical time-domain analyzers (BOTDA), providing a deep insight into the understanding of the fundamental limitations of this kind of sensors. Analytical and experim ...

SPIE2015

Analytical model and experimental verification of the critical power for modulation instability in optical fibers

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

Modulation instability is thoroughly investigated and a simple analytical model for its power critically modifying the wave properties in terms of system parameters is derived and experimentally validated. The differences on the modulation instability gain ...

Optical Society of America2015

Differential chirped-pulse pair for sub-meter spatial resolution Brillouin distributed fiber sensing

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Zhisheng Yang

A distributed fiber sensor based on a differential chirped-pulse pair Brillouin optical time domain analysis (DCPBOTDA) is proposed for sub-meter spatial resolution sensing. The technique is based on the subtraction of two measurements made with the same p ...

SPIE2015

200 km fiber-loop Brillouin distributed fiber sensor using bipolar Golay codes and a three-tone probe

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Zhisheng Yang

Aiming at taking full advantage of bipolar codes, a method using a three-tone probe is proposed to alleviate the probe power limitation imposed by pump depletion in Golay-coded Brillouin distributed fiber sensors. Experimental results validate the techniqu ...

SPIE2015

Spider silk: a novel optical fibre for biochemical sensing

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

Whilst being thoroughly used in the textile industry and biomedical sector, silk has not yet been exploited for fibre optics-based sensing although silk fibres directly obtained from spiders can guide light and have shown early promises to being sensitive ...

SPIE2015

Fundamental aspects of linear slow light systems

Luc Thévenaz

In a linear slow light system the delaying process is necessarily inducing distortion for fundamental reasons, strictly bounding the maximum delay-bandwidth product to unity. Slowing the light does not directly enhance light-matter interaction, but is a co ...

City University London2015

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

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

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

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