Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Genetic-optimised aperiodic code for distributed optical fibre sensors

  • Xizi Sun,
  • Zhisheng Yang,
  • Xiaobin Hong,
  • Simon Zaslawski,
  • Sheng Wang,
  • Marcelo A. Soto,
  • Xia Gao,
  • Jian Wu,
  • Luc Thévenaz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19201-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Performance of distributed optical fiber sensing is partially limited by the need for hardware changes. Here, the authors introduce a coding algorithm that enables enhanced performance through faster processing using only software-based methods.