Effect of Pulse Depletion in a Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Analysis System

Publication Date

2013

Description

Energy transfer between the interacting waves in a distributed Brillouin sensor can result in a distorted measurement of the local Brillouin gain spectrum, leading to systematic errors. It is demonstrated that this depletion effect can be precisely modelled. This has been validated by experimental tests in an excellent quantitative agreement. Strict guidelines can be enunciated from the model to make the impact of depletion negligible, for any type and any length of fiber. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America

Journal

Optics Express

Volume

21

Issue

12

First Page

14017

Last Page

14035

Department

Electrical Engineering

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