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Instrumentation principles for optical time domain reflectometry

Healey, 1986

Document ID
791255322412196740
Author
Healey P
Publication year
Publication venue
Journal of Physics E: Scientific Instruments

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Optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR) is the only fibre measurement technique which allows anomalously lossy sections of fibre and other defects to be located nondestructively from one end of the fibre. The paper reviews the principles and techniques of the method …
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    • G01MTESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES OR STRUCTURES; TESTING STRUCTURES OR APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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    • G01M11/3109Reflectometers detecting the back-scattered light in the time-domain, e.g. OTDR
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