The measurement of propagation delay in multimode optical fibre with pulse-reflection-oscillation method

Optics and Laser Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 81-84

  Liu, Wen Chieh ^a   Lu, Mao Hong ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fibre break locator; Fibre group delay measurement; Fibre length measurement

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DATA ACQUISITION; DELAY CIRCUITS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MEASUREMENT THEORY; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; OSCILLATIONS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

DELAY MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS; FIBER BREAK LOCATORS; FIBER LENGTH MEASUREMENT; STANDARD DEVIATION;

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

EID: 0345375477     PISSN: 00303992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-3992(03)00138-5     Document Type: Article

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