Uyar, FarukKartaloğlu, TolgaÖzbay, EkmelÖzdur, İbrahim2021-02-042021-02-0420209780646825045http://hdl.handle.net/11693/54992Conference name: 2020 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim, CLEO-PR 2020 - ProceedingsDate of Conference: 3–5 August 2020We theoretically model and experimentally demonstrate the photon statistics of Rayleigh backscattered signal in a ϕ-OTDR based distributed fiber optical sensor in the presence of amplified spontaneous emission noise caused by optical pre-amplifier.EnglishConference Paper10.1364/CLEOPR.2020.P3_25