Impact of optical noises on coded Brillouin optical time-domain analyzers

Gao, XiaYang, ZhishengWang, ShengHong, XiaobinSun, XiziWu, JianThévenaz, Luc2021-11-102021-11-102021-11-10202010.1364/OFS.2020.T3.46https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/182972The impact of optical noises on the performance of coded Brillouin optical time-domain analyzers is modelled and experimentally demonstrated. This enables quantitatively evaluating the actual coding gain at any point along the sensing fiber.Impact of optical noises on coded Brillouin optical time-domain analyzerstext::conference output::conference proceedings::conference poster