Mitigating modulation instability in Brillouin distributed fibre sensors

Marcelo A. Soto; Mehdi Alem; Wei Chen; Luc Thévenaz

doi:10.1117/12.2026296

20 May 2013 Mitigating modulation instability in Brillouin distributed fibre sensors

Marcelo A. Soto, Mehdi Alem, Wei Chen, Luc Thévenaz

Proceedings Volume 8794, Fifth European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors; 87943J (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2026296
Event: Fifth European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors, 2013, Krakow, Poland

Abstract

A thorough study of the generation of modulation instability (MI) in distributed Brillouin fibre sensors is presented. ASE noise co-propagating with the pump pulses within the MI gain spectrum has been identified to be an important factor seeding modulation instability and reducing its power threshold. The paper describes how optical narrowband filtering reduces the pump depletion resulting from MI, allowing pump pulses to propagate through longer distances in standard optical single-mode fibres.

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Marcelo A. Soto, Mehdi Alem, Wei Chen, and Luc Thévenaz "Mitigating modulation instability in Brillouin distributed fibre sensors", Proc. SPIE 8794, Fifth European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors, 87943J (20 May 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2026296

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