Phase Sensitive Optical Time-Domain Reflective Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing Technology

Xuping Zhang; Zhewen Ding; Rui Hong; Xiaohong Chen; Lei Liang; Chi Zhang; Feng Wang; Ningmu Zou; Yixin Zhang

doi:10.3788/AOS202141.0106004

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