Featured Application Distributed fibre optic sensors for geo-hydrological applications: a
comprehensive review about methodology, weaknesses, and strengths. Abstract Distributed …

This book explains physical principles, unique benefits, broad categories, implementation
aspects, and performance criteria of distributed optical fiber sensors (DOFS). For each kind …

This review describes state-of-the-art software and hardware methods for detecting the
frequency shift of a stimulated and spontaneous Brillouin scattering spectrum for the needs …

A thorough analysis of the key factors impacting on the performance of Brillouin distributed
optical fiber sensors is presented. An analytical expression is derived to estimate the error …

Distributed optical fibre sensors deliver a map of a physical quantity along an optical fibre,
providing a unique solution for health monitoring of targeted structures. Considerable …

Distributed fiber sensing possesses the unique ability to measure the distributed profile of an
environmental quantity along many tens of kilometers with spatial resolutions in the meter or …

A major cause of faults in optical communication links is related to unintentional third party
intrusions (normally related to civil/agricultural works) causing fiber breaks or cable damage …

The real remoteness of a distributed optical fiber sensor based on Brillouin optical time-
domain analysis is considerably extended in this paper using seeded second-order Raman …

In this Letter, we combine the use of optical preamplification at the receiver and optical pulse
coding techniques with an optimized modulation format to effectively extend the sensing …

A pump signal based on bipolar pulse coding and single-sideband suppressed-carried
(SSB-SC) modulation is proposed for Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) …