Title :
Fading in heterodyne OTDR
Author_Institution :
British Telecom Research Laboratories, Ipswich, UK
Abstract :
The first- and second-order statistics of the Rayleigh back-scatter signal from a single-mode fibre under quasimonochromatic pulse excitation are derived. A fading phenomenon is predicted and observed experimentally.
Keywords :
backscatter; fading; optical fibres; optical testing; time-domain reflectometry; Rayleigh backscatter signal; fading; first-order statistics; heterodyne OTDR; optical fibre testing; optical time-domain reflectometry; quasimonochromatic pulse excitation; second-order statistics; single-mode fibre;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19840022
