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 …

Phase-sensitive optical time domain reflectometry with Rayleigh enhanced optical fiber

N Lalam, PS Westbrook, J Li, P Lu, MP Buric - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a phase-sensitive optical time domain reflectometry (Φ-OTDR) based on
Rayleigh enhanced optical fiber is proposed to improve the system signal-to-noise ratio …

Probe pulse design in Brillouin optical time‐domain reflectometry

M Li, T Xu, S Wang, W Hu, J Jiang, T Liu - IET Optoelectronics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Brillouin optical time‐domain reflectometry (BOTDR) is a branch of distributed fibre‐optic
sensors, and it can measure the strain and the temperature information, localised by the …

Performance improvement of Brillouin ring laser based BOTDR system employing a wavelength diversity technique

N Lalam, WP Ng, X Dai, Q Wu, YQ Fu - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
In this paper technique is employed in a Brillouin optical time domain reflectometry (BOTDR)
using a Brillouin ring laser (BRL) as a local oscillator. In the wavelength diversity technique …

Improving the accuracy of low-cost sensor measurements for freezer automation

K Koritsoglou, V Christou, G Ntritsos, G Tsoumanis… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this work, a regression method is implemented on a low-cost digital temperature sensor to
improve the sensor's accuracy; thus, following the EN12830 European standard. This …

[PDF][PDF] 布里渊光时域反射仪分布式光纤传感研究进展

包宇奔, 孙军强, 黄强 - Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2020 - researching.cn
摘要布里渊光时域反射(BOTDR) 技术作为温度和应变测量的分布式光纤传感技术,
具有广阔的前景和巨大的应用潜力. 与基于其他原理的传感技术相比, BOTDR 拥有准确性高 …

Performance analysis of Brillouin optical time domain reflectometry (BOTDR) employing wavelength diversity and passive depolarizer techniques

N Lalam, WP Ng, X Dai, Q Wu… - Measurement Science and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose and experimentally validate a wavelength diversity technique combined with a
passive depolarizer in order to improve the performance of Brillouin optical time domain …

Sensing range improvement of Brillouin optical time domain reflectometry (BOTDR) using inline erbium-doped fibre amplifier

N Lalam, WP Ng, X Dai, Q Wu, YQ Fu - 2017 IEEE SENSORS, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we demonstrate sensing range improvement of Brillouin optical time-domain
reflectometry (BOTDR) using an inline erbium-doped fibre amplifier to compensate the …

Enhanced performance of Brillouin distributed fiber sensor with hybrid amplification

N Lalam, P Lu, M Buric… - Fiber Optic Sensors and …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The sensing range of Brillouin distributed fiber sensors (BDFS) is typically in the order of
tens of kilometers due to the attenuation of the optical fiber and restricted input pump power …

Performance improvement of Brillouin based distributed fiber sensors employing wavelength diversity techniques

WP Ng, N Lalam - 2017 16th International Conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The sensing performance in Brillouin-based distributed fiber sensors is ultimately depends
on the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the received signal. In order to enhance the SNR, thus …