Suppression of signal fading with multi-wavelength laser in polarization OTDR

C Cao, F Wang, Y Pan, X Zhang… - IEEE Photonics …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we present a novel and simple method to suppress the signal fading
phenomena in polarization optical time-domain reflectometry (POTDR). A combination of …

Simplex coded polarization optical time domain reflectometry system

C Wang, R Liao, W Chen, M Tang, S Fu, J Tang… - Optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
In polarization optical time domain reflectometry (POTDR) system, the performance of
polarimetric measurement is constrained by the low signal to noise ratio (SNR) due to the …

Development of a multiperimeter sensing system based on POTDR

F Wang, Y Zhang, W Wang, R Dou, J Lu… - IEEE Photonics …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Polarization optical time-domain reflectometry (POTDR) is sensitive to perturbations on any
point of the fiber under test (FUT). However, restricted by the sensing principle, the signal of …

Influence of optical pulse width on the perturbation detection performance of polarization-optical time domain reflectometer

F Wang, X Wang, X Zhang, M Chen, Y Lu - Applied Optics, 2012 - opg.optica.org
The influence to the sensing performance of polarization optical time domain reflectometer
(POTDR) by increasing the optical pulse width is analyzed based on wave-plate model and …

Multi-vibration detection by probe pulses with ergodic SOPs in a POTDR system

X Wang, J Hu, F Wang, Y Yong, Y Zhang, M Xue… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Polarization optical time domain reflectometers (POTDR) can detect vibration of fiber via the
change of the state of polarization (SOP) of the Rayleigh backscattered light. For traditional …

Development of distributed POTDR with analyzers of different SOP directions

M Song, C Yin, Q Xia, Y Lu, W Zhu - AIP Conference Proceedings, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Typical polarization optical time-domain reflectometer (POTDR) with single analyzer can
hardly detect external disturbance along the fiber at certain points of fiber, because the …

A new distributed measurement of birefringence vectors by P-OTDR assisted by a high speed polarization analyzer

C Shang, CQ Wu, ZY Li, SS Yang - Chinese Physics Letters, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
A new polarimetric optical time domain reflectometry (P-OTDR) measurement device
assisted by a high speed polarization analyzer is designed and a new algorithm, which can …

Multi-point disturbance detection and high-precision positioning of polarization-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry

H Wu, J Liu, L Lu, X Sun, D Atubga… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Compared with its counterparts, polarization sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry (P-
OTDR) has two typical problems in terms of multi-point disturbance detection and high …

Distributed measurement of birefringence by P-OTDR assisted with piezoelectric polarization controller

Y Shuang-Shou, W Chong-Qing… - Chinese Physics …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose a new polarization sensitive optical time domain reflectometry (P-OTDR) setup
assisted with a piezoelectric polarization controller (PPC). The input state of polarization can …

Temporal depolarization suppressed POTDR system for quasi-distributed instantaneous intrusion sensing and vibration frequency measurement

C Wang, Y Zhou, H Wu, C Zhao, J Tang… - IEEE Photonics …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Theoretical investigation on the mechanism of temporal depolarization effect in a
polarization optical time-domain reflectometry (POTDR) system is conducted. First, the …