3 papers
physics.optics2026
Sensitivity Limits for -OTDR
Juan M. Marin, Roman Ermakov, Huwei Wang +2
We demonstrate a new lower bound on the sensitivity of -OTDR by estimating phase using Kalman filtering. Numerical analysis shows a 35-dB reduction in the minimum detectab…
physics.optics2026
Fundamentals of Optical Fiber Sensing Schemes Based on Coherent Optical Time Domain Reflectometry: Signal Under Dynamic Temperature Conditions
Roman Ermakov, Huwei Wang, Florian Azendorf +4
We present a theoretical, algorithmic, and experimental study of temperature sensing using -OTDR with coherent detection. A physics-based model is developed to relate the measur…
eess.SP2025
Quantum Noise Limited Temperature-Change Estimation for Phase-OTDR Employing Coherent Detection
Huwei Wang, Roman Ermakov, Francesco Da Ros +1
The quantum limit is a fundamental lower bound on the uncertainty when estimating a parameter in a system dominated by the minimum amount of noise (quantum noise). For the first ti…