The embodiment of the invention provides a
quantum enhanced single-
photon OTDR method,
system and device and a medium, and belongs to the technical field of
optical fiber sensing. The method comprises the following steps: constructing an outer
time gating parameter group according to measurement distance segment information; controlling the single-
photon detection link to execute segmented gating in the round-trip time window of each measurement pulse based on the outer
time gating parameter group; establishing a corresponding relationship based on the single
photon counting data and the external
time gating parameter group, terminating counting accumulation of the corresponding distance grids when each distance grid meets a preset statistical condition, and constructing a distance grid counting sequence for representing the on-way scattering characteristic of the
optical fiber; counting normalization
processing and segmentation result splicing
processing are sequentially executed based on the distance grid counting sequence, and reflection event information corresponding to the whole
optical fiber process is output. According to the scheme of the invention, through cooperative
processing of segmented gating and statistical normalization, weak scattering information and a strong reflection structure in the whole process of the optical
fiber present more stable and more continuous reflection event distribution under the same counting frame.