High resolution optical time domain reflectometer based on 1.55μm up-conversion photon-counting module

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 8237-8242

  Legré, Matthieu ^a   Thew, Rob ^a   Zbinden, Hugo ^a   Gisin, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JITTER; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONS; SILICON; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CENTIMETER RESOLUTION; LITHIUM NIOBATE; VISIBLE LIGHT;

REFLECTOMETERS;

EID: 34250796699     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.008237     Document Type: Article

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