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Optimized configuration for high resolution distributed sensing using Brillouin echoes

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After more than thirty years of continuous research and development, the performances of conventional Brillouin based distributed optical fiber sensors (DOFS) are now peaking, as they are facing fundamental barriers that restrict the power of the light inj ...

EPFL2021

Performance analysis of the differential pulse-width pair Brillouin optical time domain analysis using the log normalized and linearly normalized gain

Luc Thévenaz, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Zhisheng Yang

The performance of the differential pulse-width pair Brillouin optical time domain analysis (DPP-BOTDA) is evaluated experimentally using either the gain from log normalization or linear normalization for the subtraction of traces collected with pump pulse ...

SPIE2019

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

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

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

Coherent Rayleigh time domain reflectometry : novel applications for optical fibre sensing

Xin Lu

Owing to the advantages of the optical fibre, such as lightweight, small size, low cost and immunity to electromagnetic interferences, the fibre sensors have been applied in diverse fields and the scientific research on fibre sensing keeps improving to mee ...

EPFL2016

Variable delay using stationary and localized Brillouin dynamic gratings

Luc Thévenaz, Nikolay Primerov

Reflections from movable, dynamic acoustic gratings in polarization maintaining (PM) fibers are employed in the long variable delay of periodic, isolated pulses. The gratings are introduced by stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) interaction between two c ...

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)2012

Time resolved three-dimensional acousto-optic imaging of thick scattering media

Salma Farahi

Acousto-optic imaging is based on light interaction with focused ultrasound in a scattering medium. Thanks to photorefractive holography combined with pulsed ultrasound, we perform a time-resolved detection of ultrasound-modulated photons in the therapeuti ...

2012

Localized and stationary dynamic gratings via stimulated Brillouin scattering with phase modulated pumps

Luc Thévenaz, Nikolay Primerov

A novel technique for the localization of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) interaction is proposed, analyzed and demonstrated experimentally. The method relies on the phase modulation of two counter-propagating optical waves by a common pseudo-random ...

Optical Society of America2012

Brillouin Echoes for Advanced Distributed Sensing in Optical Fibres

Stella Foaleng Mafang

Brillouin scattering is particularly efficient and attractive for the implementation of strain and temperature distributed sensing in optical fibres. Recently a trend has been observed that modern advanced applications require a substantial step towards be ...

EPFL2011

Impact of pump depletion on the determination of the Brillouin gain frequency in distributed fiber sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Stella Foaleng Mafang, Jie Lin

The energy transfer between the two interacting optical waves in a distributed sensor based on stimulated Brillouin scattering can lead to a non-uniform spectral distribution of the pumping power after a long propagation. This results in a spectrally disto ...

SPIE2011

High spatial and spectral resolution long-range sensing using Brillouin echoes

Luc Thévenaz, Stella Foaleng Mafang

High spatial (~cm) and spectral (~MHz) resolution Brillouin sensing is realized with enhanced signal to noise ratio using a pre-activated acoustic field and an optical phase control over the interrogating pulse. Pre-activation of the acoustic field preserv ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2010

Governing the speed of a light signal in optical fibers : Brillouin slow and fast light

Sang Hoon Chin

Dynamic control of the speed of a light signal, based on stimulated Brillouin scattering in optical fibers, was theoretically studied and also experimentally demonstrated as the core object of this thesis. To date, slow light based on stimulated Brillouin ...

EPFL2009

Complete experimental characterization of stimulated Brillouin scattering in photonic crystal fiber

Luc Thévenaz, Dario Alasia, Stella Foaleng Mafang

We provide a complete experimental characterization of stimulated Brillouin scattering in a 160 m long solid-core photonic crystal fiber, including threshold and spectrum measurements as well as positionresolved mapping of the Brillouin frequency shift. In ...

Optical Society of America2007