Performance improvement of Brillouin based distributed fiber sensors employing wavelength diversity techniques (Invited Paper)

Wai Pang Ng*, Nageswara Lalam

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    Abstract

    The sensing performance in Brillouin-based distributed fiber sensors is ultimately depends on the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the received signal. In order to enhance the SNR, thus improve the sensing performance, several wavelength diversity techniques have been proposed. This paper presents the current wavelength diversity techniques employed in both Brillouin optical timedomain reflectometry (BOTDR) and Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) systems. So far, the best SNR improvement in BOTDR system is 4.85 dB with a 25 km sensing fiber, whereas, 4.8 dB in BOTDA system with a 50 km sensing fiber.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationICOCN 2017 - 16th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks
    Editors ICOCN
    Place of PublicationPiscataway
    PublisherIEEE
    Pages1-3
    Number of pages3
    ISBN (Electronic)9781538632734
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Aug 2017
    Event16th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks, ICOCN 2017 - Wuzhen, China
    Duration: 7 Aug 201710 Aug 2017

    Publication series

    NameICOCN 2017 - 16th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks
    Volume2017-January

    Conference

    Conference16th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks, ICOCN 2017
    Country/TerritoryChina
    CityWuzhen
    Period7/08/1710/08/17

    Keywords

    • Distributed fiber sensors
    • Spontaneous Brillouin scattering
    • Stimulated Brillouin scattering
    • Wavelength diversity technique

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