Uyar, FarukKartaloglu, TolgaOzbay, EkmelOzdur, Ibrahim2025-09-252025-09-2520209780646825045https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEOPR.2020.P3_25https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12573/4828Ozdur, Ibrahim/0000-0001-6452-0804;We 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. (C) 2020 The Author(s)eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessConference Object10.1364/CLEOPR.2020.P3_25