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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2004
Applicants:
Jihong Geng, Tucson, AZ (US);
Shibin Jiang, Tucson, AZ (US);
Christine Spiegelberg, Tucson, AZ (US);
Inventors:
Jihong Geng, Tucson, AZ (US);
Shibin Jiang, Tucson, AZ (US);
Christine Spiegelberg, Tucson, AZ (US);
Assignee:
NP Photonics, Inc., Tucson, AZ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 9/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A distributed fiber sensor based on spontaneous Brillouin scattering uses a single-frequency fiber laser as a source and a cw Brillouin fiber ring laser as an OLO to optically shift the frequency of the OLO to set the Brillouin/OLO beat frequency within the bandwidth of a conventional heterodyne receiver. The distributed fiber sensor is capable of real-time measurement of both temperature and strain.