Bipolar Cyclic Linear Coding for Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analysis

Publication Date: 11/3/2021

Event: OFS 2020

Reference: T3.53: 1-2, 2021

Authors: Jian Fang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Yaowen Li, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Yue-Kai Huang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Ting Wang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.

Abstract: We demonstrate, for the first time, that cyclic linear pulse coding can be bipolar for BOTDA sensors, breaking the unipolar limitation of linear coding techniques and elevating the coding gain for a given code length.

Publication Link: https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=OFS-2020-T3.53