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Type: 
Conference
Description: 
In this paper we demonstrate a long-range distributed strain and temperature optical fiber sensor using Brillouin optical time-domain analysis in conjunction with optical pulse coding. Compared to standard BOTDA, pulse coding provides higher signal-to-noise ratio at the same pump peak power, overcoming the limitations induced by pump depletion and modulation instability, and allowing to achieve a record of 1 meter spatial resolution over 50 km of standard single mode fiber with temperature and strain resolution of 2.2 °C and 44 με respectively.
Publisher: 
International Society for Optics and Photonics
Publication date: 
14 Oct 2009
Authors: 

Marcelo A Soto, Gabriele Bolognini, Fabrizio Di Pasquale, Luc Thévenaz

Biblio References: 
Volume: 7503 Pages: 750383
Origin: 
20th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors