Abstract
We report on the observation of phase-sensitive Rayleigh backscattering from a single-mode fiber excited by light pulses obtained from a highly coherent single-frequency laser diode and an Erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA). The laser diode stability was tested using a highly imbalanced fiber optic Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The CW laser light was first modulated using fiber-optic EO modulator which formed 100ns to 500 ns pulses that correspond to 20 to 100 m of pulse length in the fiber. The backscattered light power is estimated to be about −51 dB lower than the launched power at the input and about N=500 averages are needed for a sensing length of Ls = 40 km to be in the useful dynamic range.
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