According to the present invention there is provided methods of performing a distributing sensing measurement, comprising the steps of, modulating the frequency of one or more light signals output from one or more light sources, using one or more multi-level sequence of bits so that the one or more light signals are frequency modulated; using the one or more frequency modulated light signals to provide a pump signal and a probe signal; propagating the pump and probe signals along an optical fiber; using interactions between the pump and probe signal to perform a distributed sensing measurement. There is further provided corresponding sensing systems.
Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Mohammad Mehdi Alem Karladani
Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Zhisheng Yang, Desmond Chow Ming Chia