Observation of Backward Guided-Acoustic-Wave Brillouin Scattering in Optical Fibers Using Pump-Probe Technique

Neisei Hayashi; Heeyoung Lee; Yosuke Mizuno; Kentaro Nakamura

doi:10.1109/JPHOT.2016.2550321

Observation of Backward Guided-Acoustic-Wave Brillouin Scattering in Optical Fibers Using Pump-Probe Technique

Neisei Hayashi, Heeyoung Lee, Yosuke Mizuno, Kentaro Nakamura

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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate the observation of backward (i.e., opposite of the direction of the pump) guided-acoustic-wave Brillouin scattering (GAWBS) using the pump-probe technique and investigate the spectral dependence on the pump-probe light power. We show that the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the backward GAWBS measurement can be drastically improved by using this technique. We also observe a nonmonotonic dependence of the SNR on the probe power, which indicates that optimal probe power exists for implementing GAWBS-based distributed sensors.

Original language	English
Article number	7458162
Journal	IEEE Photonics Journal
Volume	8
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2016.2550321
Publication status	Published - 2016 Jun
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Guided-acoustic-wave Brillouin scattering
nonlinear optics
optical fiber sensors
pump-probe technique

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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