Photon Counting OTDR: Advantages and Limitations

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 952-964

  Eraerds, Patrick ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a   Zbinden, Hugo ^a   Gisin, Nicolas ^a   Legré, Matthieu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b ID QUANTIQUE SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Distributed detection; fiber metrology; optical time domain reflectometry; photon counting

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008008308     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2039635     Document Type: Article

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