Abstract
A polarization-insensitive Brillouin optical time domain analyzer (BOTDA) based on intensity-modulated direct-detection (IM-DD) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is proposed and experimentally characterized. A polarization-multiplexed pump signal is used for polarization diversity of the stimulated Brillouin scattering, while an OFDM probe signal is used for single-shot sensing. Our experiments showed that the proposed scheme suppressed the gain fluctuation by 2.5 times.
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