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Polarisation optical time domain reflectometry for statistical evaluation of polarisation mode dispersion |
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| Authors: | Vengsarkar A.M. Cohen L.G. |
| Affiliation: | AT&T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA; |
| Abstract: | The authors shows that a commercial optical time domain reflectometer can be modified to measure the statistical nature of polarisation mode dispersion along the length of a communications grade fibre with short-length PMDs<4 ps/km.< |
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