Impact of Raman scattering and modulation instability on the performances of Brillouin sensors

Stella M. Foaleng; Luc Thévenaz

doi:10.1117/12.885105

19 May 2011 Impact of Raman scattering and modulation instability on the performances of Brillouin sensors

Stella M. Foaleng, Luc Thévenaz

Proceedings Volume 7753, 21st International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors; 77539V (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.885105
Event: 21st International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors (OFS21), 2011, Ottawa, Canada

Abstract

The impact of Raman scattering and modulation instability is studied in Brillouin time-domain analysis systems. It turns out to be very detrimental for long-range sensing as a result of the extended interaction length combined to the high pump peak pulse power. The conditions under which these effects limit the sensing range are determined and the modeling is very well confirmed by experimental results.

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Stella M. Foaleng and Luc Thévenaz "Impact of Raman scattering and modulation instability on the performances of Brillouin sensors", Proc. SPIE 7753, 21st International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, 77539V (19 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.885105

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