Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 54, Issue 4, 20250097(2025)

Research progress on performance evaluation and optimization in Brillouin distributed optical fiber sensing (invited)

Simeng JIN, Zhisheng YANG, Qing WANG, Yifeng LU, Xiaobin HONG, and Jian WU
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  • State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
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    Simeng JIN, Zhisheng YANG, Qing WANG, Yifeng LU, Xiaobin HONG, Jian WU. Research progress on performance evaluation and optimization in Brillouin distributed optical fiber sensing (invited)[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2025, 54(4): 20250097

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    Category: Invited review

    Received: Feb. 12, 2025

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    Published Online: May. 16, 2025

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    DOI:10.3788/IRLA20250097

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