1.52 ¼ M Room-Temperature Photon-Counting Optical Time Domain Reflectometer

Electronics Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1985, Pages 194-196

  Levine, B F ^a   Bethea, C G ^a   Campbell, J C ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Photoelectric devices

Indexed keywords

PHOTONS;

OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETER;

REFLECTOMETERS;

EID: 0022013322     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19850137     Document Type: Article

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