Abstract

We propose a method for shape sensing that employs Rayleigh-signature domain multiplexing to simultaneously probe the fibers or cores of a shape sensing setup with a single optical frequency-domain reflectometry scan. The technique enables incrementing the measurement speed by a factor equal to the number of multiplexed fibers at the expense of an increased noise floor in accordance with the Cramér-Rao lower bound. Nonetheless, we verify that the shape reconstruction performance of the proposed method is in very good agreement with that of conventional sequential core interrogation.

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