title: Wide temperature-range Brillouin and Rayleigh optical-time-domain reflectometry in a dispersion-shifted fiber.
abstract: The temperature dependences of spontaneous Brillouin and Rayleigh scattering intensities in a dispersion-shifted fiber have been measured over a wide temperature range by optical-time-domain reflectometry. It was found that spontaneous Brillouin and Rayleigh intensities normalized by room-temperature values have linear dependences on temperature, with coefficients (0.26 +/- 0.02)%/degrees C and (0.015 +/- 0.002)%/degrees C in temperature ranges -27-819 and 29-827 degrees C, respectively. Experimental results have demonstrated that both kinds of scattering can be used for distributed high-temperature measurement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronic Engineering, Gunma University, 1-5-1 Tenjin-Cho, Kiryu 376-8515, Japan. li@el.gunma-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Yongqian
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Fucai
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Toshihiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoshino