Disposable optical electromagnetic telemetry link for drilling

A system comprising:

• a fiber optic cable that is deployed into a wellbore, wherein a distal end of the fiber optic cable moves down the wellbore with a fluid as the fiber optic cable is deployed;
• a laser that provides a light signal to a first end of the fiber optic cable;
• and
• a receiver that receives reflections of the light signal by a sensor coupled to the first end of the fiber optic cable when the distal end of the fiber optic cable is located in the wellbore, wherein:
• the reflections of the signal are shifted in time when a portion of the fiber optic cable is exposed to an acoustic signal transmitted from an acoustic transmitter of a tool deployed at the wellbore and a first set of data included in the acoustic signal is modulated into the reflections based on the reflections of the signal being shifted in time;
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• the receiver demodulates the first set of data from the reflections of the light signal.

A non-transitory computer-related storage medium having embodied thereon instructions executable by one or more processors to:

• control deployment of a fiber optic cable into a wellbore, wherein a distal end of the fiber optic cable moves down the wellbore with a fluid as the fiber optic cable is deployed;
• initiate a light signal source to provide a light signal to a first end of the fiber optic cable;
• and
• analyze a first set of data modulated into reflections of the light signal that were received by a sensor coupled to the first end of the fiber optic cable when the distal end of the fiber optic cable is located in the wellbore, wherein the reflections of the signal are shifted in time when a portion of the fiber optic cable is exposed to an acoustic signal transmitted from an acoustic transmitter of a tool deployed at the wellbore and a first set of data included in the acoustic signal is modulated into the reflections based on the reflections of the signal being shifted in time.