Industrial Applications of the BOTDR Optical Fiber Strain Sensor

Optical Fiber Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 45-64

  Ohno, Hiroshige ^a   Naruse, Hiroshi ^a   Kihara, Mitsuru ^a   Shimada, Akiyoshi ^a  

^a NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

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EID: 0002541168     PISSN: 10685200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ofte.2000.0344     Document Type: Article

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