Abstract
We report a novel type of polarization optical time-domain reflectometry (POTDR) for fully distributed fiber-optic sensing, in which the reflected optical signal is from a series of fiber Bragg gratings that are uniformly distributed along the fiber. Compared with a conventional POTDR that uses the Rayleigh backscattering, this grating-assisted POTDR can have a much better signal-to-noise ratio and consequently a better measurement resolution and a larger measurement range of the fiber birefringence. Experimental results have shown that the measurement resolution of the grating-assisted POTDR is almost an order of magnitude better than that of a conventional POTDR.
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