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With phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry (&#x03A6;-OTDR), an optic fiber can be used as a distributed vibration sensor to perceive the external disturbance along the fiber through the phase variation of the Rayleigh backscatter light. However, due to the inevitable interference fading phenomenon, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of Rayleigh backscatter light at certain points is insufficient, thus affecting the fidelity of vibration sensing. In this paper, we propose the spectrum extraction and the rotated-vector-sum (SERVS) method to suppress the interference fading in the pulse-intensity-coding &#x03A6;-OTDR, which applies Golay complementary sequence through acousto-optic modulator (AOM). Benefited from the easier implementation, the experimental results demonstrate that the percentage of fading points can be reduced from 2.98&#x0025; to 0.33&#x0025; significantly and the standard deviation of differential phase is also decreased from 0.6556 rad to 0.2901 rad. Also the minimum level of averaged power spectral density (PSD) of the differential phase at whole locations along the fiber is reduced about 6 dB&#x002F;Hz effectively. For the demodulated disturbance signal, no influence on the SNR is observed thus it maintains a SNR improvement of 8.6 dB compared to the traditional single pulse &#x03A6;-OTDR system, achieving a noise floor of 2.38 p&#x03F5;&#x002F;&#x221A;Hz.

Interference-Fading-Suppressed Pulse-Coding Φ-OTDR Using Spectrum Extraction and Rotated-Vector-Sum Method