Local birefringence measurements in single-mode fibers with coherent optical frequency-domain reflectometry

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1458-1460

  Huttner, B ^a   Reecht, J ^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

Optical fiber measurements; Optical fiber polarization; Optical interferometry; Reflectometry

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; OSCILLATIONS; REFLECTOMETERS;

COHERENT OPTICAL FREQUENCY-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; RAYLEIGH BACKSCATTERING INTENSITY;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0032187624     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.720293     Document Type: Article

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