Detection sensitivity of Brillouin scattering near Fresnel reflection in BOTDR measurement

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 417-424

  Iida, Daisuke ^a   Ito, Fumihiko ^a  

^a NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brillouin scattering; Brillouin OTDR (BOTDR) measurement; Fresnel reflection; Heterodyne detection; Power spectrum

Indexed keywords

HETERODYNING; LIGHT REFLECTION; LINEWIDTH; POWER SPECTRUM; PULSE MODULATION; REFLECTOMETERS;

BRILLOUIN-OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETER; FRESNEL REFLECTION; HETERODYNE DETECTION;

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 40749158714     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.912512     Document Type: Article

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