Electronics Letters · 1980 · 103 citations · 4 references
EngineeringElectrical EngineeringPhysicsOpticsOptoelectronicsPhotonicsFiber OpticsFiber-optic CommunicationOptical Communication SystemsOptical FibersPhysical OpticsPolarization OpticsFiber CharacterizationOptical Field MeasurementPolarimetryTime-domain Reflectometry
A proposed new optical fibre technique will allow measurement of the spatial distribution of physical fields, and will also allow location of anomalous features in single polarisation state monomode optical fibres such as are under discussion for very high bandwidth communication.
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