A hybrid Golay coding method based on differential pulse-pair sequences is proposed for distributed Brillouin sensing. The method provides 1.5 dB signal-to-noise ratio improvement over unipolar Golay with halved measurement time, securing high spatial resolution.
Title
Hybrid Coding Scheme for Brillouin Optical Time-domain Analysis Based on Golay and Differential Pulses
Published in
26th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, OSA Technical Digest
Pages
WF27
Conference
26th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, Lausanne, Switzerland, 24–28 September 2018
Date
2018-11-21
Publisher
Washington DC, USA, Optical Society of America
ISBN
978-1-943580-50-7
Record creation date
2018-11-26