Launched pulse-shape dependence of the power spectrum of the spontaneous Brillouin backscattered light in an optical fiber

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 34, 2000, Pages 6376-6384

  Naruse, Hiroshi ^a   Tateda, Mitsuhiro ^b  

^a NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; PHASE MODULATION;

OPTICAL PULSES;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0001092425     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.006376     Document Type: Article

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