Design and Performance of a Novel Automatic Fiber Line Testing System with OTDR for Optical Subscriber Loops

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 717-726

  Tomita, Nobuo ^a   Takasugi, Hidetoshi ^a   Atobe, Naoyuki ^a   Nakamura, Ikuo ^a   Takaesu, Fumio ^a   Takashima, Seiji ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FAULT LOCATION; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK COMPONENTS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; REFLECTOMETERS; STATISTICAL TESTS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATIC FIBER LINE TESTING SYSTEM; DIGITAL SERVICE UNIT; OPTICAL SUBSCRIBER LOOPS; OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETERS;

OPTICAL CABLES;

EID: 0028428404     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.293959     Document Type: Article

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