Stochastic amplitude fluctuation in coherent OTDR and a new technique for its reduction by stimulating synchronous optical frequency hopping

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 267-277

  Izumita, Hisashi ^a,b,c,d,e   Koyamada, Yahei ^a,b   Furukawa, Shin Ichi ^a,b   Sankawa, Izumi ^b  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coherent detection; Fading noise; Optical frequency hopping; OTDR; Probability density function

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; FREQUENCY HOPPING; INTEGRATION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

FADING NOISE; OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; SELF HETERODYNE COHERENT DETECTION; STOCHASTIC AMPLITUDE FLUCTUATION; SYNCHRONOUS OPTICAL FREQUENCY HOPPING;

REFLECTOMETERS;

EID: 0031077207     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.554377     Document Type: Article

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