Publications de Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

Distributed measurement of mode group effective refractive index difference in a few mode optical fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Zhisheng Yang, Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

The possibility to perform distributed measurements of the effective refractive index difference between distinct modes in few mode optical fibers is demonstrated using phase sensitive optical time domain reflectometry. Effective refractive index differenc ...

2022

Frequency scanned phase sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry interrogation in multimode optical fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Zhisheng Yang, Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

Standard multimode optical fibers normally support transmission over some 100 modes. Large differences in the propagation constant and the spatial distribution of distinct modes degrade the performance of phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry m ...

AIP2020

High-resolution distributed shape sensing using phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry and multicore fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Zhisheng Yang, Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

In this paper, a highly-sensitive distributed shape sensor based on a multicore fiber (MCF) and phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry (φ-OTDR) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The implemented system features a high strain sensitivit ...

2019

Phase Sensitive OTDR Strain Measurement Using Single Mode Operation in Multimode OM4 Fiber

Luc Thévenaz, Zhisheng Yang, Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

We present the first realization of strain sensing in a multimode OM4 optical fiber using phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry. We demonstrate that single mode operation in an OM4 fiber is achievable and allows the fiber strain to be measured ...

2019

High-Resolution Distributed Differential Curvature Measurement Based on Phase-Sensitive Optical Time Domain Reflectometry and Multi-Core Fiber

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Zhisheng Yang, Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

A distributed curvature sensor based on multicore fiber and phase-sensitive optical time domain reflectometry is presented, demonstrating a resolution of 10 cm over ~25 m of sensing range. ...

Optical Society of America2018

Resolving 1 million sensing points in an optimized differential time-domain Brillouin sensor

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

A differential pulse-width pair (DPP) Brillouin distributed fiber sensor is implemented to achieve centimetric spatial resolution over distances of several kilometers. The presented scheme uses a scanning method in which the spectral separation between the ...

Optical Society of America2017

Evaluation of the accuracy of BOTDA systems based on the phase spectral response

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

We evaluate the Brillouin frequency shift (BFS) determination error when utilizing the Brillouin phase spectrum (BPS) instead of the Brillouin gain spectrum (BGS) in BOTDA systems. Systems based on the BPS perform the determination of the BFS through a lin ...

Optical Society of America2016

Novel scanning method for distortion-free BOTDA measurements

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Zhisheng Yang, Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

Systematic errors induced by distortions in the pump pulse of conventional Brillouin distributed fiber sensors are thoroughly investigated. Experimental results, supported by a theoretical analysis, demonstrate that the two probe sidebands in standard Bril ...

Optical Society of America2016

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

Sub-metric spatial resolution over an extended range using differential time-domain Brillouin sensing

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

This paper reports on a distributed fiber sensing scheme to achieve sub-metric spatial resolution and long sensing ranges based on a differential pulse-width pair (DPP) Brillouin sensor. The scheme uses a scanning method in which the spectral separation be ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016