Pump-power-independent double slope-assisted distributed and fast brillouin fiber-optic sensor

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15109644

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A method of stimulated Brillouin scattering is proposed in which both slopes of the BGS spectrum are probed to achieve immunity to pump power variations. Suitably applied, the technique can maintain all the benefits of the known Slope-Assisted-BOTDA technique, while using the same setup but at the cost of halving the sampling speed. the method may include: obtaining a reference Brillouin gain spectrum (BGS) representative of steady state or average conditions in various locations of the optical fiber along its length; generating, based on the reference BGS, a probe wave being a complex waveform comprising a first and second set of waveforms, each set having waveforms tailored to match an opposite slope of the reference BGS, at the various locations; performing stimulated Brillouin scattering at the various locations by applying a pump pulse wave to the probe wave; and deducing the local Brillouin frequency shift (BFS) at the various locations.

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RAMOT AT TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY LTDP O BOX 39296 TEL AVIV 6139201

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Danon, Or Tel-Aviv, IL 23 319
Motil, Avi Azor, IL 2 12
Peled, Yair Kfar Ruth, IL 3 24
Tur, Moshe Tel Aviv, IL 16 311

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