Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

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Reaching millikelvin resolution in Raman distributed temperature sensing using image processing

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

Image processing is proposed and experimentally demonstrated to improve the capabilities of Raman distributed optical fibre sensors. The here reported technique consists in stacking consecutive one-dimensional Raman Stokes and anti-Stokes traces in two-dim ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Method and apparatus for measuring the local birefingence along an optical waveguide

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Xin Lu

This invention relates to a system and method to determine the distributed birefringence profile along an optical fibre. Birefringence manifests as different refractive indices for two orthogonal states of polarization of the light propagating in the optic ...

2016

Characterisation of an electrical heating method for metallic-coated optical fibres for distributed sensing applications

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Xin Lu

In several applications a temperature contrast between the sensing fibre and the environment is required to detect changes in the environmental heat capacity. For this purpose the process of electrical heating in metallic-coated fibres is theoretically ana ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Gain vs phase in BOTDA setups

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

We evaluate the Brillouin frequency shift (BFS) determination error when using the Brillouin phase spectrum (BPS) instead of the Brillouin gain spectrum (BGS) in BOTDA setups. We compare the error obtained in the BFS determination in both cases, both with ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Novel technique for distributed fibre sensing based on coherent Rayleigh scattering measurements of birefringence

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Xin Lu

A novel distributed fibre sensing technique is described and experimentally validated, based on birefringence measurements using coherent Rayleigh scattering. It natively provides distributed measurements of temperature and strain with more than an order o ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Optimal detection bandwidth for phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Xin Lu

The spectrum of the temporal traces obtained from a phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometer is theoretically and experimentally analysed, demonstrating its dependence on the incident optical pulse shape. Numerical simulations and theoretical resu ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Optical process and optical device, allowing to avoid unwanted nonlinear effects in an optical fiber

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

The invention concerns a process comprising the following steps: injecting, in an optical fiber, N time limited replica optical signals at distinct frequencies, each replica signal being temporally shifted relative to the other replica signals; then propag ...

2015

Analytical model and experimental verification of the critical power for modulation instability in optical fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Mohammad Mehdi Alem Karladani, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

Modulation instability is thoroughly investigated and a simple analytical model for its power critically modifying the wave properties in terms of system parameters is derived and experimentally validated. The differences on the modulation instability gain ...

Optical Society of America2015

Distributed phase birefringence measurements based on polarization correlation in phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometers

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Xin Lu

In this paper a technique to measure the distributed birefringence profile along optical fibers is proposed and experimentally validated. The method is based on the spectral correlation between two sets of orthogonally-polarized measurements acquired using ...

Optical Society of America2015

Performance limit of two-pump Brillouin fiber sensors obtained by Manakov modulation instability

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Mohammad Mehdi Alem Karladani, Javier Urricelqui Polvorinos

The Manakov modulation instability is shown to determine the performance limit of long-distance Brillouin fiber sensors utilizing orthogonally-polarized pumps. Numerical simulations of the Manakov equation are supported by the experimental measurement of a ...

IEEE2015

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Distributed phase birefringence measurements based on polarization correlation in phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometers

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Xin Lu

Optical Society of America2015

Performance limit of two-pump Brillouin fiber sensors obtained by Manakov modulation instability

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Mohammad Mehdi Alem Karladani, Javier Urricelqui Polvorinos

IEEE2015