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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

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

Optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses of exceptional quality

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

Sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses possess a rectangular spectrum, enabling data to be encoded in a minimum spectral bandwidth and satisfying by essence the Nyquist criterion of zero inter-symbol interference (ISI). This property makes them very attractive for com ...

Nature Research2013

Optical Nyquist-pulse generation with a power difference to the ideal sinc-shape sequence of < 1%

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

Sinc-shaped Nyquist-pulses possess a rectangular spectrum. Thus, a sinc-pulse transmission minimizes the carrier spacing down to the baud rate, and therefore, substantially increases the transmissible data rates. These perspectives have led to a strong res ...

VDE Verlag GmbH2013

Bipolar optical pulse coding for performance enhancement in BOTDA sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

A pump signal based on bipolar pulse coding and single-sideband suppressed-carried (SSB-SC) modulation is proposed for Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) sensors. Making a sequential use of the Brillouin gain and loss spectra, the technique is ...

Optical Society of America2013

Time gated phase-correlation distributed Brillouin fibre sensor

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov

A random access distributed Brillouin fibre sensor is presented, based on phase modulation using a pseudo-random bit sequence (PRBS) together with time gating. The standard phase-correlation technique is known to show a noise level increasing linearly with ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2013

Brillouin distributed fibre sensing using phase modulated probe

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Xin Lu

A novel configuration for a Brillouin distributed sensor using a phase modulated probe is presented. It offers the combined advantages of a direct implementation using simple devices and a large immunity to noise, shifting the information from the baseband ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2013

Modeling and evaluating the performance of Brillouin distributed optical fiber sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

A thorough analysis of the key factors impacting on the performance of Brillouin distributed optical fiber sensors is presented. An analytical expression is derived to estimate the error on the determination of the Brillouin peak gain frequency, based for ...

Optical Society of America2013

Colour simplex coding for brillouin distributed sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

The possibility to customize Simplex coding for long range Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analysis is demonstrated by “colouring” the sequences in the frequency domain. The coding gain is identical to the traditional intensity-modulated Simplex code, though ...

2013

Advanced Pulse Coding Techniques for Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

Advanced optical pulse coding methods to enhance the performance of distributed optical fiber sensors are reviewed. In particular, the latest implementations dedicated to high-performance long-range Raman and Brillouin based distributed sensing are describ ...

2013

Mitigating modulation instability in Brillouin distributed fibre sensors

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

A thorough study of the generation of modulation instability (MI) in distributed Brillouin fibre sensors is presented. ASE noise co-propagating with the pump pulses within the MI gain spectrum has been identified to be an important factor seeding modulatio ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2013

Mapping Dispersion Fluctuations along Optical Fibers Using Brillouin Probing and a Fast Analytic Calculation

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

A simple analytic formula is derived to extract tiny dispersion fluctuations along highly nonlinear fibers from distributed measurements of parametric gain. A refined BOTDA scheme, suitable to track Kerr processes, enables low noise measurements. ...

2013

Generation of Nyquist sinc pulses using intensity modulators

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

Optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses are produced based on the generation of an ideal frequency comb using cascaded intensity modulators. Nyquist pulses with 9.8-ps temporal width, 82-fs jitter and more than 40 dB SNR are achieved. ...

2013

Highly Sensitive Dispersion Map Extraction from Highly Nonlinear Fibers Using BOTDA Probing of Parametric Amplification

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

Using an enhanced scheme for probing the distribution of parametric processes along fibers, a rapid and simple technique to map zero dispersion wavelength fluctuations of less than 0.02 nm with 2 meters resolution is demonstrated. ...

2013

Highly tunable method to generate sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses from a rectangular frequency comb

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

A method to produce highly-stable optical sinc-shaped pulses is proposed based on the generation of a rectangular-spectrum frequency comb. Nyquist pulses with

OSA2013

Optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses with very low roll-off generated from a rectangular frequency comb

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

High-quality optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses with a virtual zero roll-off factor are obtained from the generation of a phase-locked, rectangular-spectrum frequency comb. Tunability over more than 4 frequency decades is demonstrated with

Optical Society of America2013

Bipolar pulse coding for enhanced performance in Brillouin distributed optical fiber sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

We propose and experimentally demonstrate the possibility to use a pump signal based on bipolar pulse sequences using single-sideband suppressed-carrier (SSB-SC) modulation in Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) sensors. The SSB-SC modulated pum ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2012

Brillouin optical time-domain analysis over a 240 km-long fiber loop with no repeater

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

In this paper we combine the use of optical pulse coding and seeded second-order Raman amplification to extend the sensing distance of Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) sensors. Using 255-bit Simplex coding, the power levels of the Raman pumps ...

2012

Time/frequency coding for Brillouin distributed sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

In this paper, we propose a novel coding for long range Brillouin Optical Time Analysis (BOTDA) distributed sensors based on a combination of time and frequency pulses, resulting in an additional coding gain of √2 with respect to traditional intensit ...

2012

Rating the performance of a Brillouin distributed fiber sensor

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

The effect of the characteristics of a generic distributed fiber sensor based on stimulated Brillouin scattering on the amplitude of the response is analyzed and a relation between the measurement noise on the time traces and the error on the determination ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2012

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