Distributed Vibration Sensor With Laser Phase-Noise Immunity by Phase-Extraction φ-OTDR

Yuying SHAO; Huanhuan LIU; Peng PENG; Fufei PANG; Guoqin YU; Zhen CHEN; Na CHEN; Tingyun WANG

doi:10.1007/s13320-019-0540-2

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