| 摘要 |
A method for measuring Brillouin backscattering comprises obtaining a signal representative of backscattered Brillouin light received from a deployed optical fibre, and dividing the signal into a plurality of signal components each having a different frequency band. Each signal component is delivered to one of a plurality of parallel detection channels, in which the components are detected, and the signal generated by the detection is sampled using an analog-to-digital converter. The samples are then processed to determine one or more properties of the Brillouin spectral line. Detection may be optical, where the backscattered light is dispersed into a plurality of optical frequency components, or electrical, where the backscattered light is first frequency mixed to downconvert the frequency to the microwave regime. |
