Utilization of a dispersion-shifted fiber for simultaneous measurement of distributed strain and temperature through Brillouin frequency shift

Abstract

In this letter, we propose and realize a new method that utilizes a dispersion-shifted fiber having compound compositions with different temperature coefficients in core to simultaneously measure the distributed strain and temperature based on Brillouin frequency shift. In a 3682-m sensing length of large-effective-area nonzero dispersion-shifted fiber, a temperature resolution of 5 degreesC, a strain resolution of 60 mu epsilon, and a spatial resolution of 2 in are achieved simultaneously.