Long-distance OTDR using photon counting and large detection gates at telecom wavelength

Optics Communications

Volumn 213, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 57-61

  Scholder, François ^a   Gautier, Jean Daniel ^a   Wegmüller, Mark ^a   Gisin, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Optical time domain reflectometry; Photon counting

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL SHUTTERS; PHOTONS; REFLECTOMETERS;

OPTICAL TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (OTDR);

OPTICAL TESTING;

EID: 0037111526     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(02)02053-9     Document Type: Article

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