217 km long distance photon-counting optical time-domain reflectometry based on ultra-low noise up-conversion single photon detector

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 24674-24679

  Shentu, Guo Liang ^a   Sun, Qi Chao ^a,b   Jiang, Xiao ^a   Wang, Xiao Dong ^a,c   Pelc, Jason S ^d   Fejer, M M ^d   Zhang, Qiang ^a   Pan, Jian Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTHWEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONS; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS;

DYNAMIC RANGE; MEASUREMENT TIME; NOISE EQUIVALENT POWER; OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; PHOTON COUNTING; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; UP-CONVERSION; VOLUME BRAGG GRATINGS;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES;

EID: 84886399191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.024674     Document Type: Article

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