Author:
Orsuti Daniele,Marcon Gianluca,Turolla Axel,Santagiustina Marco,Galtarossa Andrea,Zampato Massimo,Palmieri Luca
Abstract
The performance of a distributed acoustic sensor based on heterodyne OTDR applied to multimode fibers is analyzed. Substantial reduction of the noise floor is achieved by exploiting spatial diversity and a novel aggregation algorithm.