title: Comparison of the methods for discriminating temperature and strain in spontaneous Brillouin-based distributed sensors.
abstract: A recently proposed method of measuring the two Brillouin frequencies in a multicompositional fiber core for unambiguously resolving temperature and strain in a distributed sensor is compared with the previously established technique of measuring the intensity and frequency of the single Brillouin peak in a standard single-mode fiber.
authors.affiliation: Optoelectronics Research Center, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom. mna@orc.soton.ac.uk
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alahbabi
authors.forename: Y T
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Newson