Optical Time Domain Reflectometer Using A Photon-Counting Ingaas/Lnp Avalanche Photodiode At 1.3 ?M

Electronics Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1985, Pages 83-84

  Levine, B F ^a   Bethea, C G ^a   Cohen, L G ^a   Campbell, J C ^a   Morris, G D ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Optoelectronics; Reflectometers

Indexed keywords

PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES, PHOTODIODE;

OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETER;

REFLECTOMETERS;

EID: 0021855721     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19850057     Document Type: Article

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