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Abstract: Although pulse compression optical time domain reflectometry (PC-OTDR) exhibits high performance in spatial resolution and dynamic range, it inevitably introduces auto-correlation sidelobes, ...

Abstract: High-resolution photon-counting optical time-domain reflectometry (PC-OTDR) is crucial for the development of fiber-optic sensing and network diagnostics, allowing accurate fault location ...