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Influence of optical pulse width on the perturbation detection performance of polarization-optical time domain
Feng Wang1, Xiangchuan Wang, Xuping Zhang
1Institute of Optical Communication Engineering, Nanjing University, Jiangsu 210093, China. hellowangfeng@gmail.com
Abstract:
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 Muller matrices. Simulation and experimental results show that the ability of POTDR to sense external perturbation can be improved by increasing the pulse width of probe light, although the backscattered signal would be temporally depolarized. The depolarization effect is not a limitation to increase the pulse width to improve the signal-to-noise ratio for POTDR. The beat length of fiber can be taken as the critical value for the increase of pulse width.
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