Denoising Algorithm for Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Analysis Sensing Systems Based on Local Mean Decomposition

Qian Zhang; Tao Wang; Jieru Zhao; Jingyang Liu; Jianzhong Zhang; Lijun Qiao; Shaohua Gao; Mingjiang Zhang

doi:10.3788/AOS202141.1306009

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