Long measurement range OFDR beyond laser coherence length

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 202-205

  Ding, Zhenyang ^a   Steve Yao, X ^a,b   Liu, Tiegen ^a   Du, Yang ^a   Liu, Kun ^a   Han, Qun ^a   Meng, Zhuo ^a   Jiang, Junfeng ^a   Chen, Hongxin ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b General Photonics Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Frequency domain analysis; optical fiber measurement; phase noise; reflectometry

Indexed keywords

COHERENCE LENGTHS; DYNAMIC RANGE; FRESNEL REFLECTIONS; LASER COHERENCE; LASER FREQUENCY TUNING; MEASUREMENT RANGE; NOISE FLOOR; OPTICAL FIBER MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; OPTICAL SIGNALS; RAYLEIGH BACKSCATTERING; REFLECTOMETRY;

BACKSCATTERING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHASE NOISE; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS;

LASERS;

EID: 84872325276     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2233728     Document Type: Article

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