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

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High spatial resolution and intrinsically strain-insensitive distributed temperature sensing based on stimulated Brillouin scattering in gas

Temperature/strain cross sensitivity is a long-standing issue in Brillouin-based distributed sensors, impairing the reliability of such sensors. So far, all the proposed methods perform the discrimination by measuring two quantities showing distinct respon ...

SPIE2019

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

Development of coherent mid-infrared source using chalcogenide photonic crystal fibers

Sida Xing

Many molecule bonds have vibration frequencies in the mid-infrared band. Thus, this band is of great interest to molecular spectroscopy, material processing and medical applications. However, many optical materials typically used for laser sources experien ...

EPFL2019

Second- and third-order nonlinear wavelength conversion in an all-optically poled Si3N4 waveguide

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Camille Sophie Brès, Davide Grassani

Silicon nitride (Si3N4) is commonly employed to integrate third-order nonlinear optical processes on a chip. Its amorphous state, however, inhibits significant second-order nonlinear response. Recently, second-harmonic generation enhancement has been obser ...

2019

High-resolution distributed shape sensing using phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry and multicore fibers

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

In this paper, a highly-sensitive distributed shape sensor based on a multicore fiber (MCF) and phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry (φ-OTDR) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The implemented system features a high strain sensitivit ...

2019

Massive nonlinear optical amplification in gas

Luc Thévenaz, Flavien Gyger

We achieve unprecedented nonlinear optical amplification in gas. The gain is 20 times larger than any reported nonlinear gain in gas-filled HC-PCF and 6 times larger than the largest nonlinear gain in standard silica single-mode fiber (SMF). Furthermore, o ...

2019

Formation Rules and Dynamics of Photoinduced χ(2) Gratings in Silicon Nitride Waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Camille Sophie Brès, Davide Grassani, Edgars Nitiss, Tianyi Liu

Silicon nitride has emerged as a prominent platform for building photonics integrated circuits. While its nonlinear properties based on third-order effects have been successfully exploited, an efficient second harmonic generation in standard stoichiometric ...

2020

Large stimulated Brillouin scattering amplification in gases

Luc Thévenaz, Flavien Gyger

We exploit backward stimulated Brillouin scattering in gases to achieve unprecedented nonlinear optical amplification in fibers. The gain coefficient is 10 times larger than any reported nonlinear gain in gas-filled HC-PCF and 6 times larger than the large ...

SPIE2019

Scanning near-field optical microscopy with new probes and feedback modes

Anton Smirnov

Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy (SNOM) technique enables to overcome Abbe diffraction limit of far-field optics as well as to obtain simultaneously optical and topographical images. While the optical resolution of the method is limited by the apertu ...

EPFL2019

Optimizing Image Denoising for Long-Range Brillouin Distributed Fiber Sensing

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

Linear and nonlinear two-dimensional image processing approaches are analyzed with the aim of removing noise from data acquired by distributed optical fiber sensors based on Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA). The impact of the filter parameter ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2018

Design rules for optimizing unipolar coded Brillouin optical time-domain analyzers

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 evaluated based on both Simplex and Golay codes. Four major detrimental factors that limit the system performance, including decoded-gain trace distortion, coding ...

2018