Estimating the power and decay rate of noisy optical reflectometer return signals

DEAN MESSING; AJAY LUTHRA

doi:10.1364/OFC.1990.WI3

Optical Fiber Communication
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1990),
paper WI3
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OFC.1990.WI3

Estimating the power and decay rate of noisy optical reflectometer return signals

DEAN MESSING and AJAY LUTHRA

Optical Fiber Communication Conference 1990

San Francisco, California United States
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D. MESSING and A. LUTHRA, "Estimating the power and decay rate of noisy optical reflectometer return signals," in Optical Fiber Communication, OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1990), paper WI3.

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Abstract

In a modern optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) the return signal due to backscattering is acquired and stored by a digital subsystem. Ideally, the (optical) power of this discrete time received signal obeys.

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