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    Area of Science:

    • Optoelectronics
    • Photonics
    • Sensor Technology

    Background:

    • Phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry (Φ-OTDR) is crucial for distributed acoustic sensing (DAS).
    • Interference fading significantly degrades the performance of Φ-OTDR systems, limiting accurate disturbance detection.
    • Heterodyne coherent detection is employed in these advanced sensing systems.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To propose a low-complexity multi-subcarrier pulse generation scheme.
    • To suppress interference fading in Φ-OTDR based DAS systems.
    • To enhance the localization and recovery of acoustic disturbance signals.

    Main Methods:

    • A multi-subcarrier pulse is generated digitally via sine signal clipping.
    • The Spectrum Extraction and Rotated Vector Sum (SERVS) method is utilized for signal processing.
    • Experimental validation of the proposed scheme in a Φ-OTDR system.

    Main Results:

    • Significant reduction in interference fading occurrences was observed.
    • Intensity fluctuation was reduced from approximately 75 dB to 25 dB.
    • Successful demodulation of multiple disturbance signals confirmed the method's effectiveness.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed low-complexity multi-subcarrier pulse generation scheme effectively suppresses interference fading.
    • The SERVS method enables accurate localization and recovery of disturbance signals.
    • This advancement improves the reliability and performance of Φ-OTDR based DAS.