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Fading in heterodyne OTDR

Fading in heterodyne OTDR

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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.

Inspec keywords: optical testing; optical fibres; backscatter; fading; time-domain reflectometry

Other keywords: quasimonochromatic pulse excitation; Rayleigh backscatter signal; fading; optical time-domain reflectometry; second-order statistics; optical fibre testing; first-order statistics; single-mode fibre; heterodyne OTDR

Subjects: Fibre optics; Fibre optics and fibre waveguides; Optical refractometry and reflectometry; Optical variables measurement

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