Fiber-Optic Distributed Acoustic Sensing Technology Based on Linear Frequency Modulation Pulses

Zhe Ma; Mingjiang Zhang; Junfeng Jiang; Jianzhong Zhang; Liantuan Xiao; Tiegen Liu

doi:10.3788/LOP230746

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