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High resolution OTDR based on up-conversion photon-counting module

Published inOptics express, vol. 15, no. 13, p. 65830C-65830C-4
Publication date2007
Abstract

We implement a photon-counting Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) at 1.55μm which exhibits a high 2-point resolution and a high accuracy. It is based on a low temporal-jitter photon-counting module at 1.55μm. This detector is composed of a periodically poled Lithium niobate (PPLN) waveguide, which provides a wavelength conversion from near infrared to visible light, and a low jitter silicon photon-counting detector. With this apparatus, we obtain centimeter resolution over a measurement range of tens of kilometres.

Keywords
  • Fibre characterization
  • Metrology
  • Scattering measurements
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LEGRE, Matthieu et al. High resolution OTDR based on up-conversion photon-counting module. In: Optics express, 2007, vol. 15, n° 13, p. 65830C–65830C–4. doi: 10.1117/12.722801
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