• DocumentCode
    992156
  • Title

    Fading rates in coherent OTDR

  • Author

    Healey, P.

  • Author_Institution
    British Telecom Research Laboratories, Ipswich, UK
  • Volume
    20
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    1984
  • Firstpage
    443
  • Lastpage
    444
  • Abstract
    The fading rates of the backscatter signal from a single-mode optical fibre under quasimonochromatic pulse excitation are measured experimentally using a homodyne OTDR system. A method of increasing the fading rates to facilitate efficient signal averaging is discussed.
  • Keywords
    fading; optical fibres; time-domain reflectometry; backscatter signal; coherent OTDR; fading rates; fading rates increase method; homodyne OTDR system; optical time domain reflectometry; quasimonochromatic pulse excitation; signal averaging; single-mode optical fibre;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19840308
  • Filename
    4248764
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=992156