Statistical Properties of Single-Mode Fiber Rayleigh Backscattered Intensity and Resulting Detector Current

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1992, Pages 1091-1097

  Staubli, Roland K ^a   Gysel, Peter ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES--BACKSCATTERING; NOISE, SPURIOUS SIGNAL;

RAYLEIGH BACKSCATTERING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0026883820     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/26.142799     Document Type: Article

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