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Enabling Endogenous Distributed Acoustic Sensing in Digital Subcarrier Coherent Transmission System
Optics Letters- received 03/19/2024; accepted 04/22/2024; posted 04/23/2024; Doc. ID 524132
- Abstract: To monitor the health of the fiber network and its ambient environment in densely populated access/metro network areas, in this letter, an endogenous distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) has been proposed and achieved in a coherent digital subcarrier multiplexing (DSCM) system. Rather than specially-allocating sensing probe in general integrated communication and sensing schemes, the fractional Fourier transformed (FrFT) training sequence (TS) designated for time/frequency synchronization in DSCM coherent communications has been repurposed for sensing. While achieving excellent synchronization performance of communication, the FrFT-based TS can also be concurrently utilized to perform distributed vibration sensing. Experimental results demonstrate that the FrFT-based timing/frequency synchronization sequence is repurposed to achieve a DAS sensitivity of 70 pε·Hz-½ at a spatial resolution of 5 m, along with 100-Gb/s 16 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) DSCM transmission, without a loss of spectral efficiency.