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Going beyond 1000000 resolved points in a Brillouin distributed fiber sensor: theoretical analysis and experimental demonstration

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov

Distributed fiber sensing possesses the unique ability to measure the distributed profile of an environmental quantity along many tens of kilometers with spatial resolutions in the meter or even centimeter scale. This feature enables distributed sensors to ...

Chinese Acad Sciences, Changchun Inst Optics Fine Mechanics And Physics2016

Evaluation of the accuracy of BOTDA systems based on the phase spectral response

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

We evaluate the Brillouin frequency shift (BFS) determination error when utilizing the Brillouin phase spectrum (BPS) instead of the Brillouin gain spectrum (BGS) in BOTDA systems. Systems based on the BPS perform the determination of the BFS through a lin ...

Optical Society of America2016

Novel scanning method for distortion-free BOTDA measurements

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

Systematic errors induced by distortions in the pump pulse of conventional Brillouin distributed fiber sensors are thoroughly investigated. Experimental results, supported by a theoretical analysis, demonstrate that the two probe sidebands in standard Bril ...

Optical Society of America2016

Intensifying the response of distributed optical fibre sensors using 2D and 3D image restoration

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

Distributed optical fibre sensors possess the unique capability of measuring the spatial and temporal map of environmental quantities that can be of great interest for several field applications. Although existing methods for performance enhancement have e ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Increasing robustness of bipolar pulse coding in Brillouin distributed fiber sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Zhisheng Yang

The robustness of bipolar pulse coding against pump depletion issues in Brillouin distributed fiber sensors is theoretically and experimentally investigated. The presented analysis points out that the effectiveness of bipolar coding in Brillouin sensing ca ...

Optical Society of America2016

Distributed shape sensing using Brillouin scattering in multi-core fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Zhiyong Zhao

A theoretical and experimental study on the response of Brillouin scattering in multi-core optical fibers (MCF) under different curving conditions is presented. Results demonstrate that the Brillouin frequency shift of the off-center cores in MCF is highly ...

Optical Society of America2016

A method for reducing noise in measurements taken by a distributed sensor

Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

According to the present invention there is provided a method of sensing comprising the steps of, (a) acquiring plurality of measurement values using a distributed optical fibre sensor; (b) arranging the plurality of measurement values in a matrix having a ...

2016

Novel Concepts and Recent Progress in Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

Recent techniques open new perspectives for distributed fiber sensing. Pulse coding and multi-dimensional denoising methods result in a >10 dB noise reduction with minor modifications of the experimental layout. ...

OSA2016

Curvature and shape distributed sensing using Brillouin scattering in multi-core fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Zhiyong Zhao

Distributed curvature and shape sensing using Brillouin scattering in multi-core fiber (MCF) is presented for the first time to the best of our knowledge, by exploiting bend-dependent Brillouin frequency shift (BFS) in off-center cores. ...

Optical Society of America2016

Sub-metric spatial resolution over an extended range using differential time-domain Brillouin sensing

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

This paper reports on a distributed fiber sensing scheme to achieve sub-metric spatial resolution and long sensing ranges based on a differential pulse-width pair (DPP) Brillouin sensor. The scheme uses a scanning method in which the spectral separation be ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Reaching millikelvin resolution in Raman distributed temperature sensing using image processing

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

Image processing is proposed and experimentally demonstrated to improve the capabilities of Raman distributed optical fibre sensors. The here reported technique consists in stacking consecutive one-dimensional Raman Stokes and anti-Stokes traces in two-dim ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Method and apparatus for measuring the local birefingence along an optical waveguide

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Xin Lu

This invention relates to a system and method to determine the distributed birefringence profile along an optical fibre. Birefringence manifests as different refractive indices for two orthogonal states of polarization of the light propagating in the optic ...

2016

Characterisation of an electrical heating method for metallic-coated optical fibres for distributed sensing applications

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Xin Lu

In several applications a temperature contrast between the sensing fibre and the environment is required to detect changes in the environmental heat capacity. For this purpose the process of electrical heating in metallic-coated fibres is theoretically ana ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Gain vs phase in BOTDA setups

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

We evaluate the Brillouin frequency shift (BFS) determination error when using the Brillouin phase spectrum (BPS) instead of the Brillouin gain spectrum (BGS) in BOTDA setups. We compare the error obtained in the BFS determination in both cases, both with ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

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

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

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

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

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

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