Raman distributed optical fiber sensing has been demonstrated to be a mature and versatile
scheme that presents great flexibility and effectivity for the distributed temperature …

Fire is indeed one of the major contributing factors to fatalities, property damage, and
economic disruption. A large number of fire incidents across the world cause devastation …

Polymer optical fiber (POF) level sensors have a lot of potential in liquid level sensing
because of their inherent safety, chemical corrosion resistance, anti-electromagnetic …

Hydrologic research is a very demanding application of fiber-optic distributed temperature
sensing (DTS) in terms of precision, accuracy and calibration. The physics behind the most …

Over the past five years, Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) along fiber optic cables
using Raman backscattering has become an important tool in the environmental sciences …

Reliable and accurate measurements of temperature and strain in structures subjected to
fire can be difficult to obtain using traditional sensing technologies based on electrical …

Raman-based distributed temperature sensors are now used in a wide variety of industrial
and scientific applications. In this paper, we set out the physical principles behind these …

Over the last 37 years, particular interest has been directed towards exploring the
characteristics of the optical environment for sensing, giving rise to what would now be one …

Optical fibers are being widely utilized as radiation sensors and dosimeters. Benefiting from
the rapidly growing optical fiber manufacturing and material engineering, advanced optical …

Condition assessment is significant to the maintenance management of high-voltage (HV)
cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) power cables. This article presents a condition …