Single-arm three-wave interferometer for measuring dispersion of short lengths of fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 16896-16908

  Galle, Michael A ^a   Mohammed, Waleed ^a   Qian, Li ^a   Smith, Peter W E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REFLECTION; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; WAVELENGTH;

INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; RELATIVE ERROR; THREE-WAVE INTERFEROMETERS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 37149030000     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.016896     Document Type: Article

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