Table 3 Typical pulse coding schemes and experimental results

From: Physics and applications of Raman distributed optical fiber sensing

Schemes

Sensing distance

Temperat-ure accuracy

Figures of merit

255-bit Simplex Coded87

19.5 km

3.0 °C

6.5

Low-Repetition-Rate Cyclic Pulse Coding85

26.0 km

3.0 °C

8.66

Cyclic Pseudo-Random Sequence Coding89

1.0 km

1.5 °C

0.66

Pre-Shaped Simplex Code90

50.0 km

9.0 °C

5.55

Improved Simplex Coding91

1.0 km

0.1 °C

10

Genetic-Optimized Aperiodic Code92

39.0 km

3.9 °C

10