
Computed tomography for distributed Brillouin sensing
Author(s) -
Youhei Okawa,
Kazuo Hotate
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.435320
Subject(s) - brillouin zone , optics , brillouin scattering , radon transform , optical fiber , materials science , physics , computer science , artificial intelligence
A method to reconstruct the spatial distribution of Brillouin gain spectrum from its Radon transform is proposed, which is a type of optical computed tomography. To verify the concept, an experiment was performed on distributed Brillouin fiber sensing, which succeeded in detecting a 55-cm strain section along a 10-m fiber. The experimental system to obtain the Radon transform of the Brillouin gain spectrum is based on a Brillouin optical correlation-domain analysis with a linear frequency-modulated continuous-wave laser. Combining distributed fiber sensing with computed tomography, this method can realize a high signal-to-noise ratio Brillouin sensing.