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A long haul transmission system uses a digital signal processor DSP instead of an additional optical phase conjugate copier because the optical phase conjugate copier requires high quality optical carrier regeneration to recover the pump and optical PLL to maintain phase matching between signal and pump. Therefore, the use of DSP to process the signal and idler at receiver end greatly simplifies the system setup, increases the system stability and decreases the system cost.
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Aspects of the present disclosure describe distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS)/distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) systems, methods, and structures exhibiting a sensitivity enhancement via MIMO sampling and phase recombination.
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Disclosed are systems and methods directed to transfer learning of cascaded EDFA models error accumulations in a multi-span system in which a two-step method using transfer learning is employed to reduce EDFA model error accumulation in a multi-span system. A first step of employs existing pretrained component-level ML-based EDFA models in chain to create a large synthetic dataset. The synthetic dataset includes all related features and labels for a specific end-to-end link. A source model is trained based on the large synthetic dataset. To accommodate a performance prediction gap between real link condition and the source model, which is trained on synthetic dataset, our method employs a second step that collects a few measurements from the real end-to-end link and makes few-shots learning to transfer the synthesis-data-based source model to real-data-based target model.
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Aspects of the present disclosure describe improved distributed acoustic sensing using dynamic range suppression of optical time domain reflectometry either by using a feedback loop comprising optical and electrical elements or using a nonlinear element in the electrical domain after coherent detection. When using a feedback loop, the amplitude of the periodic waveform of coherent OTDR can be inverted. This allows optical pre-compensation of the received optical signal before coherent detection with the goal of minimizing amplitude dynamic range. Alternatively, a nonlinear element in the electrical domain can reduce amplitude dynamic range before sampling by analog-to-digital converters (ADC).
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A spatial averaging method for a coherent distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) system that employs differential beating and polarization combining of signals for two locations along a length of optical sensing fiber to determine phase change in-between every location along the length of the optical sensing fiber and a moving average using polarization combining output to reduce any Rayleigh fading before phase determination.
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Systems, methods, and structures that provide distributed acoustic sensing using chirped optical pulses of selectable duration and bandwidth, at a frame rate limited by a round-trip propagation time of a fiber under test. Instead of processing a transmitted chirped pulse as a single sequence—our systems, methods, and structures employ a parallel fragmented multiband architecture, where each tributary correlates the received signal with a truncated chirped pulse to obtain the Rayleigh impulse response over its frequency band. By reducing the duration of the chirp processed by each tributary, spatial leakage is reduced at all the tributaries, thus even after combining all the interferometric products from all tributaries using a rotated vector sum, the resultant signal is much less impacted by spatial leakage than by using a conventional TGD-OFDR method.
Abstract:
Aspects of the present disclosure describe DAS/DVS DFOS systems, methods, and structures that advantageously enable/provide OTDR measurement(s).
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Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems, methods, and structures for high speed frequency hopping distributed acoustic sensing using an acousto-optic modulated (AOM), gated re-circulating loop and a frequency shifted receiver local oscillator. Using the re-circulating loop controlled by the AOM to generate frequency-hopping pulse(s) increases DAS acoustic bandwidth overcomes infirmities exhibited in the art that generate multiple frequency patterns that are not suitable for long-distance DAS. Additionally, by employing frequency shifted local oscillator (LO) with asymmetric in band detection, bandwidth requirements are reduced by one half.
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Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems, methods and structures providing bidirectional optical fiber communication and sensing using the same fiber transmission band and bidirectional WDM fiber sharing such that communications channels and optical fiber sensing channel(s) coexist on the same fiber. As a result, nonlinear interaction between communications channels and interrogating pulse(s) of sensing are much reduced or eliminated.
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Systems and methods for transmission filtering are provided. A receiver includes an input coupled to a transmission line to receive distorted optical symbols. A distortion filter is coupled to the input to replace the distorted optical symbols with predicted symbols using a trained neural network. A decoder is coupled to the distortion filter to decode the predicted symbols.