Polarization effects in coherent optical frequency-domain reflectometry
- 1 November 1996
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
- Vol. 8 (11) , 1513-1515
- https://doi.org/10.1109/68.541567
Abstract
Polarization effects in coherent optical frequency domain reflectometry were evaluated. The use of a polarization average procedure completely eliminated these effects, giving rise to a measurement accuracy of 0.27 dB for an arbitrary polarization vector of the detected signal, without making use of polarization diversity receivers, which are not suitable to this case.Keywords
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