Abstract:For precise measurement of phase signals in phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometers, a novel noise reduction method based on complementary ensemble empirical modal decomposition coupled with singular value decomposition (PE-CEEMD-SVD) based on permutation entropy algorithm is proposed. Initially, the phase signal containing noise is decomposed by CEEMD to obtain a series of components with different frequencies. Subsequently, the PE algorithm is combined with the correlation coefficient mechanism to retain the useful components with larger correlation, and the SVD algorithm is used to denoise the noise components with smaller correlation. Finally, the useful components retained after two denoising processes are reconstructed. Simulation and experimental results demonstrate that compared with EMD, EEMD and CEEMD, this method can achieve higher signal-to-noise ratio, which is beneficial for precise measurement of phase signals.