Multimode-laser reflectometer with a multichannel wavelength detector and its application

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 34, 1997, Pages 8919-8928

  Funaba, Tadayuki ^a   Tanno, Naohiro ^a   Ito, Hiromasa ^b  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basic characteristics; Mapping; Multichannel wavelength detector; Multimode laser; Reflectometer

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000868699     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.008919     Document Type: Article

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