-152.5dB sensitivity high dynamic-range optical frequency-domain reflectometry

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 926-927

  Mussi, G ^a   Gisin, N ^a   Passy, R ^b   Von der Weid, J P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

OFDR; Reflectometers; Reflectometry

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HIGH PASS FILTERS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PHOTODETECTORS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SHOT NOISE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

FRESNEL REFLECTION; INTERFEROMETER DETECTOR INTERFACE; LASER LIGHT SOURCE; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; QUANTUM NATURE; RAMP GENERATOR; RAYLEIGH BACKSCATTERING MEASUREMENT;

REFLECTOMETERS;

EID: 0030576206     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19960600     Document Type: Article

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