Enhanced disturbance monitoring and localization enabled by digital signal processing (dsp)-based laser phase noise estimation

Abstract

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, deriving substantially orthogonal optical fields from an output of an optical source, implementing a delay on one of the substantially orthogonal optical fields, resulting in time delayed optical fields, performing coherent detection of the time-delayed optical fields, resolving electrical field signals based on the coherent detection, and causing the electrical field signals to be processed so as to estimate a property of the optical source, wherein estimation of the property facilitates disturbance detection and localization. Other embodiments are disclosed.