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Brillouin scattering
About: Brillouin scattering is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 11426 publications have been published within this topic receiving 178306 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrated that optical fiber sensors based on stimulated Brillouin scattering in optical fibers have excellent capability for long-range distributed strain and temperature measurements, and achieved a spatial resolution below one centimeter while preserving the full accuracy on the determination of temperature and strain.
Abstract: Optical fiber sensors based on stimulated Brillouin scattering in optical fibers have now clearly demonstrated their excellent capability for long-range distributed strain and temperature measurements. The fiber is used as sensing element and a value for temperature and/or strain can be obtained from any point along the fiber. While the spatial resolution of classical configurations is practically limited to 1 meter by the phonon lifetime, novel approaches have been demonstrated these past years that can overcome this limit. In this paper, this could be achieved by two physical processes: prior activation of a steady acoustic wave through the classical Brillouin interaction between two Brillouin pumps, and interrogation by Bragg reflection on the acoustic wave using a distinct ultra-short pulse in a highly birefringent fiber. We could achieve a spatial resolution below one centimeter, while preserving the full accuracy on the determination of temperature and strain.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors report quantitative measurements of various thermodynamic derivatives, including the coupling between density and smectic-layer spacing, and discuss preliminary evidence concerning one model of the -$B$ phase.
Abstract: Brillouin-scattering results are reported for monodomain samples of $\ensuremath{\beta}$-methyl butyl $p$ [($p$-methoxy benzylidine)amino] cinnamate in both the smectic-$A$ and -$B$ phases. For both phases theoretical predictions are confirmed concerning the number and polarizations of the propagating hypersonic waves. We report quantitative measurements of various thermodynamic derivatives, including the coupling between density and smectic-layer spacing. We discuss preliminary evidence concerning one model of the smectic-$B$ phase.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented the first demonstration of distributed strain/temperature sensing with a high spatial resolution in plastic optical fibers (POFs) based on Brillouin optical correlation-domain reflectometry.
Abstract: We present the first demonstration of distributed strain/temperature sensing with a high spatial resolution in plastic optical fibers (POFs) based on Brillouin optical correlation-domain reflectometry. A 50-cm-long strain-applied (or heated) POF section is clearly detected with a theoretical spatial resolution of 34 cm, a high sampling rate of 3.3 Hz (per measured point), and a high signal-to-noise ratio. A 10-cm-long heated POF section is also successfully detected with a theoretical resolution of 7.4 cm. The performance limitation of this system is then discussed.
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TL;DR: A theoretical model is developed that can be used to predict stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) threshold in optical fibers that arises through the effect of BrillouIn pump recycling technique and obtained simulation results are in close agreement with experimental results.
Abstract: We develop a theoretical model that can be used to predict stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) threshold in optical fibers that arises through the effect of Brillouin pump recycling technique. Obtained simulation results from our model are in close agreement with our experimental results. The developed model utilizes single mode optical fiber of different lengths as the Brillouin gain media. For 5-km long single mode fiber, the calculated threshold power for SBS is about 16 mW for conventional technique. This value is reduced to about 8 mW when the residual Brillouin pump is recycled at the end of the fiber. The decrement of SBS threshold is due to longer interaction lengths between Brillouin pump and Stokes wave.
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TL;DR: A high-resolution distributed measurement of the Brillouin gain spectrum in a polarization-maintaining fiber (PMF) using Brillou in dynamic grating is proposed and experimentally demonstrated.
Abstract: We propose and experimentally demonstrate a high-resolution distributed measurement of the Brillouin gain spectrum in a polarization-maintaining fiber (PMF) using Brillouin dynamic grating. In our approach, acoustic waves which contain the information of the local Brillouin frequency are generated by a long pump pulse in one polarization along the PMF and are read out by a short probe pulse with an orthogonal polarization at a different optical frequency from the pump. In experiments, a distributed strain measurement with a 10 cm spatial resolution is demonstrated in a 105 m PMF.
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