Frequency-domain intermodal interferometer for the bandwidth measurement of a multimode fiber

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 32, 2006, Pages 8238-8243

  Ahn, Tae Jung ^a   Moon, Sucbei ^a   Kim, Soan ^a   Oh, Kyunghwan ^a   Kim, Dug Young ^a   Kobelke, Jens ^b   Schuster, Kay ^b   Kirchhof, Johnnes ^b  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETERS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; REFLECTOMETERS;

INTERMODAL INTERFERENCE SIGNAL; MULTIMODE OPTICAL FIBER (MMF); OPTICAL FREQUENCY-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (OFDR) TECHNIQUE; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

EID: 33845939854     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.008238     Document Type: Article

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