Nondestructive measurement of mode couplings along a multi-core fiber using a synchronous multi-channel OTDR

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 12530-12540

  Nakazawa, Masataka ^a   Yoshida, Masato ^a   Hirooka, Toshihiko ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

MODE COUPLING; MULTI CORE; MULTI-CHANNEL; NON-DESTRUCTIVE MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETER;

COUPLINGS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LIGHT; PHOTOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84861499535     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.012530     Document Type: Article

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