Spatial-resolution improvement in long-range coherent optical frequency domain reflectometry by frequency-sweep linearisation

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 408-410

  Tsuji, K ^a   Shimizu, K ^a,b   Horiguchi, T ^a   Koyamada, Y ^a  

^a NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

^b Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical communication; Optical fibre testing; Reflectometry

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LINEARIZATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL TESTING; REFLECTOMETERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

COHERENT OPTICAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; FREQUENCY SWEEP LINEARIZATION; OPTICAL FIBRE TESTING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0031069977     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19970238     Document Type: Article

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