Measurement of backscatter factor in single-mode fibres
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- Author(s): M.P. Gold 1 ; A.H. Hartog 1
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Department of Electronics,
University of Southampton
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Department of Electronics,
University of Southampton
, Southampton
, UK
- Source: Electronics Letters, Volume 17, Issue 25-26, 10 December 1981, p. 965 – 966, DOI: 10.1049/el:19810674, Print ISSN 0013-5194, Online ISSN 1350-911X
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Published 21/07/2012
Abstract
The ratio of the backscattered power to the input pulse energy is measured in single-mode optical fibres. The results provide confirmation of single-mode backscatter theory and show that measurement of this ratio can be used to determine xs, the Rayleigh scatter coefficient.
Inspec keywords: backscatter; optical fibres; Rayleigh scattering; light scattering
Other keywords: backscatter factor measurement; Rayleigh scatter coefficient; single-mode fibres
Subjects: Fibre optics and fibre waveguides; Fibre optics
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