Recent advances in Brillouin optical time domain reflectometry

Q Bai, Q Wang, D Wang, Y Wang, Y Gao, H Zhang… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
In the past two decades Brillouin-based sensors have emerged as a newly-developed
optical fiber sensing technology for distributed temperature and strain measurements …

distributed time-domain sensors based on Brillouin scattering and FWM enhanced SBS for temperature, strain and acoustic wave detection

X Bao, Z Zhou, Y Wang - PhotoniX, 2021 - Springer
Distributed time-domain Brillouin scattering fiber sensors have been widely used to measure
the changes of the temperature and strain. The linear dependence of the temperature and …

Distributed fiber optics sensors for civil engineering infrastructure sensing

K Soga, L Luo - Journal of Structural Integrity and Maintenance, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing (DFOS) is one of the promising tools for structure
health monitoring. It can measure physical quantities (such as temperature, strain, and …

Subsea cable condition monitoring with distributed optical fiber vibration sensor

A Masoudi, JA Pilgrim, TP Newson… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
A novel subsea cable condition monitoring technique based on embedded optical fiber
inside the cable is demonstrated. It is shown that a distributed optical fiber vibration sensor …

Recent progress in fast distributed Brillouin optical fiber sensing

H Zhang, D Zhou, B Wang, C Pang, P Xu, T Jiang… - Applied Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Brillouin-based optical fiber sensing has been regarded as a good distributed measurement
tool for the modern large geometrical structure and the industrial facilities because it can …

Dynamic measurements of 1000 microstrains using chirped-pulse phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry

HD Bhatta, L Costa, A Garcia-Ruiz… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
This paper extends the capabilities of chirped-pulse phase-sensitive optical time-domain
reflectometry to the measurement of large dynamic strains over hundreds of meters of …

Denoising of BOTDR dynamic strain measurement using convolutional neural networks

B Li, N Jiang, X Han - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Brillouin optical time domain reflectometry (BOTDR) system measures the distributed
strain and temperature information along the optic fibre by detecting the Brillouin gain …

Enhancing spatial resolution of BOTDR sensors using image deconvolution

H Wu, N Guo, D Feng, G Yin, T Zhu - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We propose to employ the image deconvolution technique for Brillouin optical time domain
reflectometry (BOTDR) systems to achieve a flexible and enhanced spatial resolution with …

Distributed fibre optic strain sensing of an axially deformed well model in the laboratory

T Sasaki, J Park, K Soga, T Momoki… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2019 - Elsevier
Well integrity is crucial in enabling sustainable gas production from methane hydrate
reservoirs and real-time distributed monitoring techniques can potentially facilitate proper …

Fast acquirable Brillouin optical time-domain reflectometry based on bipolar-chirped pulse pair

P Xu, C Pang, X Dong, Y Qin, Y Dong - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In this article, fast measurement of Brillouin optical time-domain reflectometry (BOTDR)
based on a linearly frequency modulated (LFM) pulse and a digital matched filter is studied …