High-Speed Mach-Zehnder-OTDR Distributed Optical Fiber Vibration Sensor Using Medium-Coherence Laser

Yuheng TONG; Zhengying LI; Jiaqi WANG; Honghai WANG; Haihu YU

doi:10.1007/s13320-018-0499-4

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