High-resolution and high-sensitivity optical-time-domain reflectometer.

نویسندگان

  • C G Bethea
  • B F Levine
  • S Cova
  • G Ripamonti
چکیده

We demonstrate a photon-counting optical-time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) operating at a wavelength of 0.85 microm at room temperature with high sensitivity (3 x 10(-15) W) at high resolution (1.5 cm, 150 psec). Measurements of splice losses and Rayleigh scattering losses less then 0.1 dB with centimeter resolution are demonstrated to be possible with such an OTDR.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Optics letters

دوره 13 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1988