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In the use of fibers for communication purposes, a factor of prime interest is the extent to which a transmitted signal changes during propagation. Bearing in mind that such changes are introduced by power loss and material and modal dispersions, it becomes clear that ultimately we must have accurate knowledge of the attenuation within the system, as well as the system’s impulse response (or its Fourier transform, the frequency response). At first sight, we are left with a seemingly straightforward measurement problem. Unfortunately, the situation is complicated by a number of variables which ensure that neither the measured attenuation of a given fiber nor its measured impulse response are universally and uniquely defined quantities. We will therefore devote some space (Sect.5.1) to a short discussion of these problems, before considering measurement techniques.
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Sharma, A.B., Halme, S.J., Butusov, M.M. (1981). Fiber Measurements. In: Optical Fiber Systems and Their Components. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 24. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-38471-7_5
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