Brillouin OTDR employing optical frequency shifter using side-band generation technique with high-speed LN phase-modulator

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1674-1676

  Izumita, Hisashi ^b   Sato, Toshiya ^c   Tateda, Mitsuhiro ^a,d   Koyamada, Yahei ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

^c NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; HETERODYNING; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

BRILLOUIN BACKSCATTERING; SIDEBAND LIGHT; WIDEBAND OPTICAL FREQUENCY SHIFTERS;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 0030420972     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.544715     Document Type: Article

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