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Absolute Temperature Sensing in the 67-350 K Range Using Brillouin Scattering in Gases

This paper proposes a novel temperature sensing method using stimulated Brillouin scattering in a hollow-core fiber filled with gas. Compared to classical Brillouin sensors, the Brillouin response of gases shows a higher sensitivity at cryogenic temperatur ...

SPIE2025

Strain-only distributed optical fiber sensing with no intrinsic temperature sensitivity

Luc Thévenaz, Yuting Yang

We report a novel approach to distributed optical fiber sensing that achieves strain-only measurement with no intrinsic temperature cross-sensitivity. This is accomplished by filling the microstructured cladding of a photonic crystal fiber with a simple ga ...

SPIE2025

Distributed optical fiber sensors: what is known and what is to come

Luc Thévenaz

This perspective article delves into the current performance limitations of distributed optical fiber sensors and proposes avenues for future advancements, as envisioned by the author, whose four-decade-long career has been dedicated to this transformative ...

Frontiers Media SA2025

[Erratum] Study of backward Brillouin scattering in gas-filled anti-resonant fibers (vol 8, 086104, 2023)

Luc Thévenaz, Li Zhang, Malak Mohamed Hossameldeen Omar Mohamed Galal

AIP Publishing2025

Polarization pulling in Brillouin fiber sensing using orthogonal probes

Luc Thévenaz

While birefringence-induced polarization fading in dual-probe Brillouin optical time-domain analysis has been demonstrated to be mitigated by using sub-mW orthogonally polarized probes, this work investigates consequences of using stronger probes. Experime ...

SPIE2025

Distributed Temperature Alarm System Based on Incoherent Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry and Side Air-Hole Optical Fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Yuting Yang

This paper proposes and experimentally validates a distributed temperature alarm system based on carbon dioxide (CO2)-filled 18 m side air-holes fiber (SAHF), interrogated through a conventional (incoherent) optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR). Custom ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2024

Polarization Pulling in Dual-Probe Distributed Brillouin Optical Fiber Sensors

Luc Thévenaz

This paper investigates the so-far unexplored influence of the probes on the state of polarization (SOP) of the pump pulse in a distributed fiber sensor based on dual-probe Brillouin optical-time domain analysis (BOTDA). A theoretical framework, based on a ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2024

Humidity-insensitive optical fibers for distributed sensing applications

Luc Thévenaz, Tiago Filipe Pimentel Das Neves

Humidity is a critical environmental factor in various applications, and its temperature dependence must be considered when developing thermo-hygrometer fiber sensors. The optical fibers that constitute the sensor must have a temperature reference, which s ...

2023

Study on the possibility of Φ-OTDR sensing in hollow-core fibres

Luc Thévenaz, Malak Mohamed Hossameldeen Omar Mohamed Galal, Yuting Yang

The backscattering process in hollow core fibres shows a large similarity with Rayleigh scattering, offering the potential to be exploited for distributed sensing. A classical Φ-OTDR implementation is used to observe the backscattering signal from the surf ...

SPIE2023

New Sensing Technologies for Monitoring Machinery, Structures, and Manufacturing Processes

Luc Thévenaz, Yi Huang

Sensing is the fundamental technique for sensor data acquisition in monitoring the operation condition of the machinery, structures and manufacturing processes. In this paper, we briefly discuss the general idea and advances of various new sensing technolo ...

2023

New Avenues in Optical Fiber Sensing Using Gas

Luc Thévenaz, Flavien Gyger, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Li Zhang, Malak Mohamed Hossameldeen Omar Mohamed Galal, Yuting Yang

Gases turn out to be a very attractive medium for optical fiber sensing, showing highly flexible possibilities though widely unexploited so far. A new era opens for fiber sensing, exploiting the unprecedented potentialities of fluids. ...

Optica Publishing Group2023

Roadmap on Optical Sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Lei Zhang

Optical sensors and sensing technologies are playing a more and more important role in our modern world. From micro-probes to large devices used in such diverse areas like medical diagnosis, defense, monitoring of industrial and environmental conditions, o ...

2023

Study of backward Brillouin scattering in gas-filled anti-resonant fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Li Zhang, Malak Mohamed Hossameldeen Omar Mohamed Galal

Brillouin scattering in gas shows unmatched gain properties in hollow-core optical fibers filled at high pressure. Here, the gain characteristics are studied for two common gases, namely, N2 and CO2, which show distinct features and are compared to expecte ...

2023

Novel low-temperature fiber sensing technique using Brillouin scattering in gas

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Yuting Yang

Brillouin scattering in gases shows the unique property to offer an enhanced temperature sensitivity at very low temperatures. This attractive solution for cryogenic systems is justified theoretically and validated experimentally. ...

Optica Publishing Group2023

Distributed Alarm System Based on OTDR Interrogation of Side Air-Hole Fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Yuting Yang

A distributed sensor for multi-event alarm triggering is demonstrated by measuring the loss change induced by the liquefaction of pressured CO2 trapped along a side air-hole fiber. ...

2023

Spun fibres: a quasi circularly birefringent medium

Luc Thévenaz, Ana Gabriela Correa Mena, Xu Cheng

A simplified model describing the polarisation characteristics of spun fibres is proposed, aiming at determining how close to a circularly birefringent medium such a fibre is. This is of crucial importance regarding the interest of such a medium for magnet ...

SPIE2023

SBS-based fiber sensors

Luc Thévenaz

The spectra of Brillouin scattering processes in optical fibers are affected by temperature, axial strain, and other quantities of interest. This dependence forms the basis for optical Brillouin scattering based optical fiber sensors. Since the first propo ...

Elsevier2022

Historical perspective and basic principles

Luc Thévenaz

We give a broad overview of the historical development and physics of Brillouin scattering. We discuss the seminal papers of Brillouin and Mandelstam and give the historical context of their research. We discuss the development of experiments and observati ...

Elsevier2022

Analytical prediction of the final error due to noise in a ϕ-OTDR system

Luc Thévenaz, Li Zhang, Malak Mohamed Hossameldeen Omar Mohamed Galal, Suneetha Sebastian, Yuting Yang

An analytical expression to estimate the uncertainty on the frequency shift in ϕ-OTDR systems is established and confirmed by actual data. ...

Optica Publishing Group2022

Large evanescently-induced Brillouin scattering at the surrounding of a nanofibre

Luc Thévenaz, Flavien Gyger, Li Zhang

Brillouin scattering has been widely exploited for advanced photonics functionalities such as microwave photonics, signal processing, sensing, lasing, and more recently in micro- and nano-photonic waveguides. Most of the works have focused on the opto-acou ...

Nature Research2022