Abstract
A distributed Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) sensor enhanced by forward stimulated Brillouin scattering (FSBS) based distributed Brillouin amplification (DBA) was proposed and presented. Due to co-propagating of pump and Stokes lights, the Stokes pulse is effectively amplified in front segment of fiber, resulting in flatter gain distribution. As a proof-of-concept, FSBS-DBA based BOTDA sensing with distance of ∼74.2 km, Brillouin frequency shift standard deviation of less than ∼2 MHz and spatial resolution of ∼10 m was demonstrated. This method is compatible and complementary with backward SBS-based DBA, and features better pumping efficiency than Raman amplification.
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