The relative accuracy of temperature and strain determination using Brillouin frequency shift and power change in standard single-mode fibre and the frequency shifts of the two Brillouin peaks in large effective area fibre is reported.
Alahbabi, M., Cho, Y.T. and Newson, T.P. (2003) Comparison between standard SMF and non-zero dispersion shifted fibre LEAF for long range simultaneous temperature and strain measurements. In, 16th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors (OFS-16), Nara City, Japan, 13 - 17 Oct 2003. 4pp.
