Publications by Simon Adrien Zaslawski

On the Measurement Accuracy of Coherent Rayleigh-based Distributed Sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Li Zhang, Malak Mohamed Hossameldeen Omar Mohamed Galal, Suneetha Sebastian

The phase change of back-scattered light due to external perturbations is retrieved in coherent Rayleigh-based distributed sensors by estimating the frequency shift (FS) between the traces of different measurements. The uncertainty associated with the esti ...

2021

Evaluating measurement uncertainty in Brillouin distributed optical fibre sensors using image denoising

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Zhisheng Yang

In 2016, our research team proposed in an issue of Nature Communications1 the use of multidimensional signal processing, especially image denoising techniques, to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of distributed optical ﬁbre sensors. The beneﬁts of t ...

Nature Research2021

Distributed optomechanical fiber sensing based on serrodyne analysis

Luc Thévenaz, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Zhisheng Yang

Distributed measurement of forward stimulated Brillouin scattering (FSBS) attracted substantial attention for its ability to probe media surrounding optical fibers. Currently, all techniques extract the information from the FSBS-induced local energy transf ...

2021

Advanced methods for Brillouin based distributed optical fiber sensors

Simon Adrien Zaslawski

After more than thirty years of continuous research and development, the performances of conventional Brillouin based distributed optical fiber sensors (DOFS) are now peaking, as they are facing fundamental barriers that restrict the power of the light inj ...

EPFL2021

Opto-mechanical cross-talk reduction in air-holes multicore fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Zhisheng Yang, Yun Fu

We report on the use of air-holes in multicore fibers to alleviate intercore perturbations induced by forward stimulated Brillouin scattering. Comparisons with conventional multicore fibers show significant improvement in terms of cross-talk reduction. ...

Optical Society of America2020

Genetic-optimised aperiodic code for distributed optical fibre sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Zhisheng Yang, Jian Wu, Sheng Wang

Distributed optical fibre sensors deliver a map of a physical quantity along an optical fibre, providing a unique solution for health monitoring of targeted structures. Considerable developments over recent years have pushed conventional distributed sensor ...

Nature Research2020

Short spatial resolutions retrieval from a long pulse BOTDA trace

Luc Thévenaz, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Zhisheng Yang, Sheng Wang

A novel, to the best of our knowledge, postprocessing technique is proposed to extract with a flexible and variable spatial resolution the information from Brillouin optical time-domain analyzers, obtained using a pulse longer than the acoustic settling ti ...

2020

On the 2D Post-Processing of Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Analysis

Luc Thévenaz, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Zhisheng Yang

The benefits and limitations inherent to the 2D post-processing of measurements from Brillouin optical time-domain analyzers are investigated from a fundamental point of view. In a preliminary step, the impact of curve fitting on the precision of the estim ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Performance analysis of the differential pulse-width pair Brillouin optical time domain analysis using the log normalized and linearly normalized gain

Luc Thévenaz, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Zhisheng Yang

The performance of the differential pulse-width pair Brillouin optical time domain analysis (DPP-BOTDA) is evaluated experimentally using either the gain from log normalization or linear normalization for the subtraction of traces collected with pump pulse ...

SPIE2019

Short spatial resolutions retrieval from a long pulse BOTDA trace

Luc Thévenaz, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Zhisheng Yang, Sheng Wang

A novel technique is proposed to obtain a flexible and variable spatial resolution from a conventional Brillouin optical time-domain analyzers using a fast post-processing algorithm. The approach is very attractive since a fine spatial resolution can be ob ...

SPIE2019

Distributed forward stimulated Brillouin scattering measurement using broadband BOTDR

Luc Thévenaz, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Zhisheng Yang, Sheng Wang

Brillouin optical time-domain reflectometry is used to perform distributed forward stimulated Brillouin scattering (FSBS) measurements. This configuration suppresses the need for an additional frequency scanning to evaluate the local Brillouin peak gain wh ...

SPIE2019

Design rules for optimizing unipolar coded Brillouin optical time-domain analyzers

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Zhisheng Yang, Zonglei Li

The performance of unipolar unicolor coded Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) is evaluated based on both Simplex and Golay codes. Four major detrimental factors that limit the system performance, including decoded-gain trace distortion, coding ...

2018

Boosting the performance of distributed optical fiber sensors based on adaptive decoder

Luc Thévenaz, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Zhisheng Yang, Jian Wu, Sheng Wang

An adaptive decoder is proposed to derive the fiber single-pulse response. This experimentally simple technique simultaneously improves the measurement time and the noise level, boosting to an uncommon degree the overall performance of distributed fiber se ...

Optical Society of America2018

Impact of Fitting and Digital Filtering on Signal-to-Noise Ratio and Brillouin Frequency Shift Uncertainty of BOTDA Measurements

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Zhisheng Yang

The intricate relationships linking signal-to-noise ratio and Brillouin frequency shift uncertainty after post-processing of Brillouin optical time-domain analysis measurements are investigated, highlighting the crucial impact of fitting. ...

OSA2018

Design rules for Unipolar Unicolor Coded Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analysis

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Zhisheng Yang, Zonglei Li

The performance of unipolar unicolor coded Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) is thoroughly studied, providing quantitative guidelines to design a distortion-free coded BOTDA system operating at maximum signal-to-noise ratio. ...

Optical Society of America2018