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Sensitivity Limits for ϕ-OTDR

Juan M. Marin, Roman Ermakov, Huwei Wang, Francesco Da Ros, Darko Zibar

physics.opticsarXiv:2608.23007

Abstract

We demonstrate a new lower bound on the sensitivity of ϕ-OTDR by estimating phase using Kalman filtering. Numerical analysis shows a 35-dB reduction in the minimum detectable SNR, compared to when using conventional phase estimation.

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