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Distributed Brillouin Sensing: Correlation-Domain Techniques

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The Brillouin based distributed sensors have great potentials in many fields such as smart materials and structers. The correlation domain technique developed in the last two decades is based on the measurement for the correlated-peaks along the optical fiber. It have attracted much attention as its unparalleled advantages in ultra high resolution and the ability to achieve dynamic measurement, which are difficult for the traditional time domain techniques. Both spontaneous Brillouin scattering and stimulated Brillouin scattering can be utilized in correlation domain techniques. Efforts have been paid to improve the performances including the effective sensing points enlargement and noise suppression. Moreover, the correlation domain techniques can be well combined with other techniques such as time domain techniques or Brillouin dynamic grating techniques.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

    Weiwen Zou, Xin Long & Jianping Chen

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Zou, W., Long, X., Chen, J. (2019). Distributed Brillouin Sensing: Correlation-Domain Techniques. In: Peng, GD. (eds) Handbook of Optical Fibers. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7087-7_9

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