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@Article{Huttner1999,
  author =       "B. Huttner and B. Gisin and N. Gisin",
  title =        "Distributed {PMD} measurement with a polarization-{OTDR} in optical fibers",
  journal =      "IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology",
  year =         "1999",
  volume =       "17",
  pages =        "1843--1848",
  number =       "10",
  abstract =     "This paper presents a new method for the measurement of distributed polarization
                 mode dispersion (PMD) in optical fibers. This method uses a polarization optical
                 time-domain reflectometer (P-OTDR), and is based on a measurement of the degree of
                 polarization of the backscattered light as a function of distance in the fiber.
                 Both the average and the statistics of the degree of polarization are used to
                 estimate the two relevant parameters for measuring PMD, namely, the beat length and
                 the coupling length. At present, our P-OTDR gives qualitative results only.
                 However, it enables to distinguish between high and low PMD sections in a long
                 fiber link. This should already have practical applications, in particular for the
                 characterization of installed fibers.",
  owner =        "cc",
  sn =           "0733-8724",
  timestamp =    "2010.08.20",
  ut =           "WOS:000083006300016",
}