Distributed forward Brillouin sensor based on local light phase recovery

Desmond M. Chow; Zhisheng Yang; Marcelo A. Soto; Luc Thévenaz

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05410-2

Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Distributed forward Brillouin sensor based on local light phase recovery

Desmond M. Chow,
Zhisheng Yang,
Marcelo A. Soto,
Luc Thévenaz

Affiliations

Desmond M. Chow: EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Institute of Electrical Engineering, SCI-STI-LT Station 11
Zhisheng Yang: EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Institute of Electrical Engineering, SCI-STI-LT Station 11
Marcelo A. Soto: EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Institute of Electrical Engineering, SCI-STI-LT Station 11
Luc Thévenaz: EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Institute of Electrical Engineering, SCI-STI-LT Station 11

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05410-2
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Conventional distributed Brillouin sensing allows real-time sampling at high spatial resolution, but is so far restricted to measuring quantities inside the fibre core. Here, Chow et al. demonstrate a distributed forward Brillouin sensor that is sensitive to quantities outside the fibre bulk.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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