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OPTICS LETTERS
卷 42, 期 9, 页码 1728-1731出版社
Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OL.42.001728
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- H European Research Council (ERC) [307441]
- Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) [608099]
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) [TEC2013-45265-R, TEC2015-71127-C2-2-R]
- Horizon Framework Programme (H) (DOMINO)
- European Commission (EC) [MSCA-ITN-ETN-722509]
- Consejeria de Educacion, Juventud y Deporte, Comunidad de Madrid (SINFOTON-CM) [S2013/MIT-2790]
Phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry (phi OTDR) is widely used for the distributed detection of mechanical or environmental variations with resolutions of typically a few meters. The spatial resolution of these distributed sensors is related to the temporal width of the input probe pulses. However, the input pulse width cannot be arbitrarily reduced (to improve the resolution), since a minimum pulse energy is required to achieve a good level of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and the pulse peak power is limited by the advent of nonlinear effects. In this Letter, inspired by chirped pulse amplification concepts, we present a novel technique that allows us to increase the SNR by several orders of magnitude in fOTDR-based sensors while reaching spatial resolutions in the centimeter range. In particular, we report an SNR increase of 20 dB over the traditional architecture, which is able to detect strain events with a spatial resolution of 1.8 cm. (C) 2017 Optical Society of America
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