High-efficiency DBA-BOTDA with optimized SNR by multiple bandwidths pump modulation

For Brillouin optical time-domain analysis(BOTDA) based on distributed Brillouin amplification(DBA), constant Brillouin response achieved by the exponentially variable bandwidth/intensity pump modulation suffers from the much lower pumping efficiency for long-range sensing, which counterbalances the merit of DBA. In this Letter, pump modulation by multiple constant bandwidths was proposed and demonstrated. The ～98.9 km sensing with ～5 m spatial resolution and no use of optical pulse coding(OPC) was achieved by ～8 dBm Brillouin pump, which is lower by ～9 dB in theory by comparison with exponentially increased bandwidth modulation.Compared with traditional DBA-BOTDA, signal-to-noise ratio(SNR) enhancement with 4.6 dB was obtained. The flattened standard deviation(STD) of Brillouin frequency shift(BFS)(less than ～2 MHz) along the whole fiber was demonstrated.     

Comparative study on reduced impacts of Brillouin pump depletion and nonlinear amplification in coded DBA-BOTDA

The impacts of Brillouin pump depletion and nonlinear amplification in coded long-range Brillouin optical time-domain analysis(BOTDA) based on distributed Brillouin amplification(DBA) were studied. The error of Brillouin frequency shift(BFS) due to Brillouin pump depletion was compared for DBA-BOTDA using non-cyclic and cyclic coding. For non-cyclic coding, significant over-and under-shoots of BFS were found in the range with larger BFS variation, such as hot spot. The impact of Brillouin pump depletion can be reduced considerably by cyclic coding. Furthermore, to compensate the BFS error due to nonlinear amplification,a simple and effective log linearization was proposed and demonstrated.     

Random-injection-based two-channel chaos with enhanced bandwidth and suppressed time-delay signature by mutually coupled lasers: Proposal and numerical analysis

Simultaneous bandwidth(BW) enhancement and time-delay signature(TDS) suppression of chaotic lasing over a wide range of parameters by mutually coupled semiconductor lasers(MCSLs) with random optical injection are proposed and numerically investigated. The influences of system parameters on TDS suppression(characterized by autocorrelation function(ACF) and permutation entropy(PE) around characteristic time) and chaos BW are investigated. The results show that, with the increasing bias current, the ranges of parameters(detuning and injection strength) for the larger BW(> 20 GHz) are broadened considerably, while the parameter range for optimized TDS(< 0.1) is not shrunk obviously.Under optimized parameters, the system can simultaneously achieve two chaos outputs with enhanced BW(> 20 GHz)and perfect TDS suppression. In addition, the system can generate two-channel high-speed truly physical random number sequences at 200 Gbits/s for each channel.