Publications by Nikolay Primerov

All-optical signal processing using dynamic Brillouin gratings

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov

The manipulation of dynamic Brillouin gratings in optical fibers is demonstrated to be an extremely flexible technique to achieve, with a single experimental setup, several all-optical signal processing functions. In particular, all-optical time differenti ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

Generation and application of dynamic gratings in optical fibers using stimulated Brillouin scattering

Luc Thévenaz, Nikolay Primerov

Since the invention of optical fiber cable data transmission using light has become ubiquitous in the past years. Nonlinear optical effects, which are hardly noticed in our daily life, have become crucial and highly influential for the design and performan ...

EPFL2013

Localized and stationary dynamic gratings via stimulated Brillouin scattering with phase modulated pumps

Luc Thévenaz, Nikolay Primerov

A novel technique for the localization of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) interaction is proposed, analyzed and demonstrated experimentally. The method relies on the phase modulation of two counter-propagating optical waves by a common pseudo-random ...

Optical Society of America2012

Variable delay using stationary and localized Brillouin dynamic gratings

Luc Thévenaz, Nikolay Primerov

Reflections from movable, dynamic acoustic gratings in polarization maintaining (PM) fibers are employed in the long variable delay of periodic, isolated pulses. The gratings are introduced by stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) interaction between two c ...

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)2012

Sub-centimetre Spatial Resolution in Distributed Fibre Sensing, based on Dynamic Brillouin Grating in Optical Fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov

Optical fibre sensors based on stimulated Brillouin scattering in optical fibers have now clearly demonstrated their excellent capability for long-range distributed strain and temperature measurements. The fibre is used as sensing element and a value for t ...

2012

Tunable and reconfigurable multi-tap microwave photonic filter based on dynamic Brillouin gratings in fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov

We propose and experimentally demonstrate new architectures to realize multi-tap microwave photonic filters, based on the generation of a single or multiple dynamic Brillouin gratings in polarization maintaining fibers. The spectral range and selectivity o ...

Optical Society of America2012

Recent implementations of fiber and integrated tunable microwave photonics filters

Luc Thévenaz, Nikolay Primerov

We present recent implementations of microwave photonic filters using the following two technologies: InP-based MDR (microdisk resonator) on and coupled to a nanophotonic SOI waveguide and dynamic Brillouin gratings (DBGs) in polarization maintaining fiber ...

IEEE2012

All-optical storage and processing in optical fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov, Andrey Denisov

The recent possibility to generate and read dynamic Bragg gratings in optical fibers by the interaction of multiple optical waves through stimulated Brillouin scattering has opened a new field to realize all-optical fiber-based functions. ...

IEEE2012

Random-access distributed fiber sensing

Luc Thévenaz, Nikolay Primerov, Andrey Denisov

Optical sensing offers an attractive solution to the societal concern for prevention of natural and human-generated threats and for efficient use of natural resources. The unprecedented properties of optical fibers make them ideal for implementing a ‘nervo ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2012

High-resolution Brillouin fiber sensing using random phase coding of the pump and probe waves

Luc Thévenaz, Nikolay Primerov

Distributed temperature measurements with 1.2 cm resolution based on stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in standard fibers are reported. High resolution is achieved by phase-coding both pump and probe waves with a high-rate, pseudo-random binary phase c ...

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)2012

Long Variable Delay and Distributed Sensing Using Stationary and Localized Brillouin Dynamic Gratings

Luc Thévenaz, Nikolay Primerov

Stationary and localized Brillouin dynamic gratings are generated using phase modulation of both pump waves by a pseudo-random bit sequence. The gratings are applied to long variable delay of pulses and to cm-level distributed sensing ...

Optical Society of America2012

Brillouin distributed sensing using localized and stationary dynamic gratings

Luc Thévenaz, Nikolay Primerov

In this work, we apply a recent technique for the generation of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) dynamic gratings that are both localized and stationary to realize high-resolution distributed temperature sensing. The gratings generation method relies ...

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)2012

Dual-pump push-pull polarization control using stimulated Brillouin scattering

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov

Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) amplification of probe signals is highly polarization dependent. Maximum and minimum gain values are associated with a pair of orthogonal states of polarization (SOP), which are related to the pump SOP. Since the maxim ...

Optical Society of America2011

Polarization pulling based on stimulated Brillouin scattering in a dual-pump configuration

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov

Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) amplification of probe signals is highly polarization dependent. Maximum and minimum gain values are associated with a pair of orthogonal states of polarization (SOP) at the fiber output. Since the maximum gain is much ...

SPIE2011

Tunable multiplication of the repetition rate of an optical pulse train using dynamic Brillouin gratings in optical fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov

We here propose a novel technique for realizing the multiplication of the pulse repetition rate with a flexibly tunable multiplication factor, based on dynamic Brillouin grating (DBG) reflectors implemented in highly birefringent fibers. ...

Optical Society of America2011

Dynamic Brillouin gratings: A new tool in fibers for all-optical signal processing

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov

The recent possibility to generate dynamic Bragg gratings by the interaction of 2 optical waves through stimulated Brillouin scattering in highly birefringent fibers has opened a new field to realize all-optical fiber-based functions. ...

IEEE2011

High Spatial and Spectral Resolution Long-Range Sensing Using Brillouin Echoes

Luc Thévenaz, Stella Foaleng Mafang, Kwang-Yong Song, Sang Hoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov

While classical configurations have a practical spatial resolution of 1 meter, novel approaches have been demonstrated that can overcome this limit to offer spatial resolutions in the centimetre range, while preserving full measurand accuracy. ...

Optical Society of America2011

All-optical calculus based on dynamic Brillouin grating reflectors in optical fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov

We experimentally demonstrate that all-optical signal calculus can be realized based on dynamic Brillouin gratings in optical fibers. Temporal integration and first-order differentiation were performed for optical pulse with various waveforms. ...

Optical Society of America2011

Movable dynamic grating-based optical delay line in polarization maintaining fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov

A new type of all optical delay line is realized in fibers. A local dynamic grating reflector can be generated everywhere in the fiber, demonstrating >1 us delay for 650 ps pulses. ...

Optical Society of America2011

Recent progress towards centimetric spatial resolution in distributed fibre sensing

Luc Thévenaz, Stella Foaleng Mafang, Kwang-Yong Song, Sang Hoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov

Optical fibre sensors based on stimulated Brillouin scattering have now clearly demonstrated their excellent capability for long-range distributed strain and temperature measurements. The fibre is used as sensing element and a value for temperature and/or ...

The International Society for Optical Engineering2010