Zero dead-zone OTDR with high-spatial resolution for short haul applications

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1140-1142

  Feced, Ricardo ^b   Farhadiroushan, Mahmoud ^a,b   Handerek, Vincent A ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Optical fiber measurements; Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETERS (OTDR); SPONTANEOUS STOKES RAMAN EMISSION (SSRE);

REFLECTOMETERS;

EID: 0031207222     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.605529     Document Type: Article

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