Uyar, FarukKartaloglu, TolgaOzbay, EkmelOzdur, Ibrahim2021-06-182021-06-182020978-0-646-82504-5https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEOPR.2020.P3_25https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12573/820We theoretically model and experimentally demonstrate the photon statistics of Rayleigh backscattered signal in a phi-OTDR based distributed fiber optical sensor in the presence of amplified spontaneous emission noise caused by optical pre-amplifier.enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessThe Investigation of Rayleigh Backscattered Signal Statistics in a phi-OTDR System Incorporating Optical Pre-AmplifierconferenceObject