Browsing by UPNA Author "Mariñelarena Ollacarizqueta, Jon"
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Compensation of nonlocal effects induced by the extinction ratio of pump pulses in Brillouin optical time-domain analysis sensors
We demonstrate a technique to compensate the nonlocal effects that appear in Brillouin optical time-domain analysis sensors when pump pulses with limited extinction ratio are deployed. These recently discovered nonlocal ... -
Contributions to the development of Brillouin distributed sensors for structural health monitoring
The main objectives of this thesis is to contribute to the enhancement of the performance of distributed optical ber sensors (DOFS) based on stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) by analyzing their limitations and proposing ... -
Cost-effective Brillouin optical time-domain analysis sensor using a single optical source and passive optical filtering
We present a simplified configuration for distributed Brillouin optical time-domain analysis sensors that aims to reduce the cost of the sensor by reducing the number of components required for the generation of the two ... -
Detrimental effects in Brillouin distributed sensors caused by EDFA transient
We investigate the deleterious effect and the error in Brillouin optical time-domain analyzers induced by the combination of a low extinction ratio pulse generation with the transient behavior of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. -
Effects of pump pulse extinction ratio in Brillouin optical time-domain analysis sensors
We report on two previously unknown non-local effects that have been found to impair Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) sensors that deploy limited extinction ratio (ER) pump pulses. The first one originates ... -
Egituren egoeraren monitorizaziorako zuntz optikoan oinarritutako sentsore sinplifikatua
Brillouin hedatuko denbora eremu optikoaren analisian (BOTDA) oinarritutako sentsoreak, estruktura handien (100 km luzerako estrukturak) deformazioa eta tenperatura neurtzeko gaitasuna dute. Lan honetan, BOTDA konfigurazio ... -
Enhancement of the dynamic range in slope-assisted coherent brillouin optical time-domain analysis sensors
We present two techniques that provide an extension of the dynamic range of coherent Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) sensors for dynamic measurements. This type of BOTDA sensors rely on self-heterodyne ... -
Fiber-optic brillouin distributed sensors: from dynamic to long-range measurements
This chapter focuses on Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) sensors because they are the most successful Brillouin distributed sensors (BDS) type in terms of performance and practical applications. Distributed ... -
Gain dependence of measured spectra in coherent Brillouin optical time-domain analysis sensors
We report on the effects of large pump pulse powers on Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) sensors based on phase-modulated probe wave and coherent detection. It is found that the large Brillouin gain that comes ... -
Gain dependence of the phase-shift spectra measured in coherent Brillouin optical time-domain analysis sensors
We report on the effects of large pump pulse powers on Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) sensors based on phase-modulated probe wave and coherent self-heterodyne detection. These sensors are particularly ... -
In-field torsion measurements on solar trackers using fiber optic sensors
In-field torsion measurements on solar trackers using fiber Bragg gratings are presented. 45 FBG sensors have been deployed in an operational solar energy plant to study the mechanical response of the structure to wind. -
Investigation on the working point of slope-assisted dynamic Brillouin distributed fiber sensing
In this paper, an investigation on the working point of slope-assisted dynamic distributed Brillouin sensing is presented. A comparison has been carried out between the sensing performances achieved at the inflection point ... -
Latest research on long-range Brillouin distributed sensing
We review the latest developments in long-range Brillouin optical time-domain analysis sensors. The factors that impair the performance of these sensors, particularly in terms of their distance range, are discussed together ... -
Linearly-configured BOCDA system with large modulation amplitude using dual-probe wave
We present and experimentally demonstrated a linearly-configured Brillouin optical correlation domain analysis (LC-BOCDA) system that allows large modulation amplitude (Δf) based on a dual probe wave and the control of ... -
Medida de torsión en seguidores solares con sensores de fibra óptica
En este trabajo se ha monitorizado la torsión sufrida por una estructura de seguidores solares empleando sensores de fibra óptica. Estas medidas de campo se han obtenido con una red de sensores formada por 45 redes de ... -
Non-local effects in Brillouin optical time-domain analysis sensors
Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) sensors have great potential to provide distributed measurements of temperature and strain over large structures with high spatial resolution and measurement precision. However, ... -
Phasorial DPP-BOTDA sensor tolerant to non-local effects
We introduce a modification of the differential pulse width pair technique in a BOTDA sensor based on a phase modulated probe wave and RF demodulation. This provides a differential Brillouin phasorial signal with high ... -
Pulse coding linearization for Brillouin optical time-domain analysis sensors
We introduce a simple method to extend the performance of pulse coding techniques in their application to Brillouin optical time-domain analysis sensors (BOTDA). It is based on applying a simple logarithmic processing on ... -
Simplified Brillouin sensor for structural health monitoring applications based on passive optical filtering
We present a simplified configuration for distributed Brillouin optical time domain analysis sensors. The technique is based on passive optical filtering of the spectral components generated in an RF-pulse-modulated optical ... -
Structural health monitoring of solar trackers using distributed fiber optic sensors
We demonstrate the application of a novel type of distributed fiber optic sensors (DFOSs) to dynamically monitor the effects of wind on solar tracker structures used in photovoltaic power stations. This DFOS is based on ...