They originated from the intrinsic fiber-optic nonlinearity in optical fibers, i. Brillouin scattering, and have many distinguished advantages, such as high accuracy due to the frequency revolved interrogation, multiple sensitivities of measurands (strain, temperature. distributed strain and temperature sensing in optical fibers. The technology emerged from research. This chapter provides an overview of different Brillouin sensing techniques and mainly focuses on the most widely used one, the Brillouin optical time domain analysis (BOTDA). When the electric field amplitude of an optical beam (so-called pump wave), and another wave is introduced at the downshifted Brillouin. Brillouin based distributed optical fiber sensors have been studied for more than two decades because they have incomparable abilities over the pointed or multiplexed fiber-optic sensors based on fiber Bragg grating and/or inline Fabry-Perot resonator.
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