TY - JOUR A1 - Shaheen, Sabahat A1 - Hicke, Konstantin A1 - Krebber, Katerina T1 - Phase-sensitive optical time domain reflectometry based on geometric phase measurement JF - Scientific Reports N2 - A phase-sensitive optical time domain reflectometer based on coherent heterodyne detection of geometric phase in the beat signal of light, is reported for the first time to our knowledge. The use of the geometric phase to extract strain makes it immune to polarisation diversity fading. This is because a polarisation mismatch between the interfering beams is not a hindrance to its measurement. The geometric phase is calculated using the amplitude of the beat signal and individual beam intensities without any need for phase unwrapping. It is measured per beat period and can be equated with the traditionally measured dynamic phase with appropriate scaling. The results show that the system based on the geometric phase successfully measures strain, free from polarisation mismatch fading and phase unwrapping errors, providing a completely novel solution to these problems. KW - Fiber optic sensing KW - Distributed acoustic sensing KW - DAS KW - Geometric phase KW - Pancharatnam–Berry phase KW - Berry phase PY - 2023 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-570307 DO - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29972-4 VL - 13 SP - 1 EP - 11 PB - Nature Portfolio CY - London AN - OPUS4-57030 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -