Enhancing the performance of coherent OTDR systems with polarization diversity complementary codes

• Published in: Optics express Vol. 26; no. 10; p. 12878
• Main Authors: Dorize, Christian, Awwad, Elie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Optical Society of America - OSA Publishing 14.05.2018
• Subjects: Computer Science; Engineering Sciences; Networking and Internet Architecture

Monitoring the optical phase change in a fiber enables a wide range of applications where fast phase variations are induced by acoustic signals or by vibrations in general. However, the quality of the estimated fiber response strongly depends on the method used to modulate the light sent to the fibe...