Detecting broadside acoustic signals with a fiber optical distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) assembly

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PATENT NO 10139269
APP PUB NO 20170370767A1
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15677640

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A distributed fiber optic acoustic sensing system includes a cable having a cable length. The cable has an elongated body having an outer surface, and at least one straight optical fiber extending parallel to a longitudinal axis of the cable along the cable length; and one or more non-straight optical fibers, such as two orthogonal sinusoidal optical fibers extending along the cable length, or a helically wrapped optical fiber extending along the cable length. The sensing system further has light transmitting and receiving means optically connected to the optical fibers.

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Birch, William Aberdeen, GB 13 265
Den, Boer Johannis Josephus Rijswijk, NL 25 778
Hornman, Johan Cornelis Rijswijk, NL 10 54
Kuvshinov, Boris Nikolaevich Rijswijk, NL 6 23
Lopez, Jorge Louis Bellaire, US 8 120
Mateeva, Albena Alexandrova Houston, US 12 98
Mestayer, Jeffery Joseph Kingwood, US 6 118
Pearce, Jeremiah Glen Houston, US 17 337

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