Fiber laser sensor configurations for refractive index, temperature and strain: A Review

D Jauregui-Vazquez, JA Alvarez-Chavez… - Photonics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Fiber laser sensors have been present for almost four decades as versatile sensing devices
with a simple demodulation process, high sensitivity, and competitive resolution. This work …

Recent progress in long-range Brillouin optical correlation domain analysis

Y Wang, M Zhang - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Distributed optical fiber sensing technology has been widely applied in the areas of
infrastructure health monitoring, national defense security, etc. The long-range high-spatial …

Mitigating stimulated Brillouin scattering in multimode fibers with focused output via wavefront shaping

CW Chen, LV Nguyen, K Wisal, S Wei… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The key challenge for high-power delivery through optical fibers is overcoming nonlinear
optical effects. To keep a smooth output beam, most techniques for mitigating optical …

High-temperature measurement based on highly-sensitive miniature cascaded FPIs and the harmonic Vernier effect

S Lin, F Wang, Y Qu, X Han, Y Zhang - Measurement, 2023 - Elsevier
A highly-sensitive miniature sensor based on cascaded FPIs and the harmonic Vernier effect
is proposed for high-temperature measurement. The package-free sensor is fabricated by …

Dynamic temperature-strain discrimination using a hybrid distributed fiber sensor based on Brillouin and Rayleigh scattering

MJ Murray, JB Murray, HM Ogden, B Redding - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We present a distributed fiber sensor capable of discriminating between temperature and
strain while performing low-noise, dynamic measurements. This was achieved by leveraging …

Distributed vibration sensor with a lasing phase-sensitive OTDR

MM Correia, W Margulis, ASL Gomes… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The authors experimentally demonstrate the operation of a lasing phase-sensitive optical
time-domain reflectometer (Φ-OTDR) based on random feedback from a sensing fiber. Here …

Long-range chaotic Brillouin optical correlation domain analysis with more than one million resolving points

Y Wang, X Hu, L Niu, H Liu, J Zhang… - Advanced Photonics …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a long-range chaotic Brillouin optical
correlation domain analysis by employing an optimized time-gated scheme and differential …

Q-switching pulse generation in multi-wavelength Brillouin Erbium-doped Fiber laser

HNA Ali, N Arsad, NF Zulkipli, AHA Rosol, M Yasin… - Optics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) was successfully used to induce Q-switching operation
in a multi-wavelength Brillouin Erbium fiber laser (BEFL) operating in a long-wavelength …

Brillouin expanded time-domain analysis based on dual optical frequency combs

JH Youn, KY Song, S Martin-Lopez… - Light: Science & …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Analysis (BOTDA) is a widely-used distributed
optical fiber sensing technology employing pulse-modulated pump waves for local …

A random optical parametric oscillator

P Tovar, JP von der Weid, Y Wang, L Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) provide ultra-fast light pulses
at tuneable wavelengths. Their primary drawback is the need for precise cavity control …