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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2023
The Government of the United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of the Navy, Arlington, VA (US);
Joseph B. Murray, Ellicot City, MD (US);
Brandon Redding, University Park, MD (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for enabling improved sensitivity in low-gain regimes. Embodiments of the present disclosure use polarization pulling to separate a signal of interest (e.g., amplified probe light) from the background probe light. This enables a dramatic increase in probe power and thereby increases the signal-to-noise ratio of the measurement. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a vector subtraction technique to compensate for undesirable interference effects resulting from the finite extinction of standard polarization components (i.e. polarizing beam splitters) and polarization fluctuations. Embodiments of the present disclosure enable Brillouin sensing with improved accuracy in low-gain regimes and is particularly relevant for high-spatial resolution sensing applications.