Distributed temperature sensing in optical fibers based on Raman scattering: demodulation algorithms

Distributed temperature sensing systems (DTS) has improved over years thanks to the improvements in configurations, components and demodulation calculating algorithms. The demodulation algorithms have been improved depending on the application and the environment, in which the fiber is installed, in order to obtain accurate measurements of temperature and distance. This study discusses the conventional calculating methods and proposed algorithms for different configurations for DTS systems.