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Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems, methods and apparatus for improving the performance of Rayleigh-based phase-OTDR with correlation-based diversity combining and bias removal.
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Aspects of the present disclosure describe amplifier dynamics compensation through feedback control for distributed fiber sensing systems, methods, and structures employing Brillouin optical time-domain reflectometry.
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Aspects of the present disclosure describe multi-frequency coherent distributed acoustic sensing with a single transmitter / receiver pair using an offset Tx / Rx framing scheme and an additional optical IQ modulator to generate the multiple frequency channels for DAS interrogation.
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Aspects of the present disclosure describe Rayleigh fading mitigation via short pulse coherent distributed acoustic sensing with multi-location beating-term combination. In illustrative configurations, systems, methods, and structures according to the present disclosure employ a two stage modulation arrangement providing short interrogator pulses resulting in a greater number of sensing data points and reduced effective sectional length. The increased number of data points are used to mitigate Rayleigh fading via a spatial combining process, multi-location-beating combining (MLBC) which uses weighted complex-valued DAS beating results from neighboring locations and aligns phase signals of each of the locations, before combining them to produce a final DAS phase measurement. Since Rayleigh scattering is a random statistic, the MLBC process allows capture of different statics from neighboring locations with correlated vibration/acoustic signal. The combined DAS results minimize a total Rayleigh fade, in both dynamic fading and static fading scenarios.
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Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems, methods. and structures for vibration detection using phase recovered from an optical transponder with coherent detection. Advantageously, our systems, methods, and structures leverage contemporary digital coherent receiver architecture in which various adaptive DSP operations performed to recover transmitted data track optical phase. The phase is extracted at low overhead cost, allowing a digital coherent transponder to perform vibration detection / monitoring as an auxiliary function to data transmission. Demonstration of vibration detection and localization based on the extraction of optical phase from payload-carrying telecommunications signal using a coherent receiver in a bidirectional WDM transmission system is shown and described.
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Aspects of the present disclosure describe optical fiber sensing systems, methods and structures and application employing coherent detection of backscattered signals.
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A system and method are provided for distributed acoustic sensing in an optical fiber (300). The system includes a transmitter (2001) for simultaneously propagating a sequence of M light pulses through the optical fiber (300) using a spatial mode selected from a set of N spatial modes provided by a spatial mode selector (200) for the transmitter (2001) that is coupled to an input to the optical fiber (300), with M and N being respective integers greater than one. The system further includes a receiver (2002) for receiving the sequence of M light pulses at an output of the optical fiber (300) and detecting an environmental perturbation in the optical fiber (300) based on an evaluation of a propagation of the sequence of M light pulses through the optical fiber (300).
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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 precompensation 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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Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems, methods and structures and applications of optical fiber sensing. Of significance, systems, methods, and structures according to aspects of the present disclosure may reuse and/or retrofit/upgrade existing optical fiber cables as part of optical fiber sensing that may find important societal application including intrusion detection, road traffic monitoring and infrastructure health monitoring. Combining such optical fiber sensing with artificial intelligence (AI) further enables powerful applications at low(er) cost.