Distributed Temperature and Strain Sensing Using Brillouin Optical Time Domain Reflectometry Over a Few Mode Elliptical Core Optical Fiber

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Publication Date: 9/24/2018

Event: OFS-26

Reference: TuD!: 1-4, 2018

Authors: Jian Fang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., University of Melbourne; Giovanni Milione, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Jeffery Stone, Corning Incorporated; Gaozhu Peng, Corning Incorporated; Ming-Jun Li, Corning Incorporated; Ezra Ip, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Yaowen Li, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Yue-Kai Huang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Philip N. Ji, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Ming-Fang Huang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Shuji Murakami, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; William Shieh, University of Melbourne; Ting Wang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.

Abstract: We propose a single-ended Brillouin-based sensor in elliptical-core few-mode optical fiber for multi-parameter measurement using spontaneous Brillouin scattering. Distributed sensing of temperature and strain is demonstrated over 0.5 km elliptical-core few-mode fiber.

Publication Link: https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=ofs-2018-TuD1