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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 22, Issue 15, Pages 18195-18202Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.018195
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- Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [TEC2010-20224-C02-01]
- Universidad Publica de Navarra
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We present a novel technique for Brillouin optical time domain analysis (BOTDA) sensors that simultaneously compensates non-local effects and reduces Brillouin noise. The technique relies on the wavelength modulation of the optical source to modify the Brillouin interaction between probe and pump waves during their propagation. The resulting Brillouin distribution mimics the wavelength modulation, creating a virtual Brillouin frequency shift profile along the sensing fiber. The fundamentals of the technique are first described theoretically and using numerical simulations. Then, proof-of-concept experiments demonstrate the capabilities of the system to reduce large variations of the pump power resulting from the interaction with high probe powers and to decrease the Brillouin induced noise enhancing the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the system. Furthermore, we show, for the first time to our knowledge, measurements of the Brillouin distribution using an injected optical power higher than the Brillouin threshold of the fiber. (C) 2014 Optical Society of America
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