Room-temperature 1.3-μm optical time domain reflectometer using a photon counting InGaAs/InP avalanche detector
- 15 February 1985
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 46 (4), 333-335
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.95622
Abstract
We demonstrate the first room-temperature photon counting optical time domain reflectometer at λ=1.3 μm. A high sensitivity (10−14 W) equal to that of a Ge avalanche diode cooled to 77 K has been realized.Keywords
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