Research progress of fading effect suppression in <i>Ф</i>-OTDR system (<i>invited</i>)

Yanyang LEI; Jinbo CHEN; Shuaiqi LIU; Tianfu LI; Yongkang DONG

doi:10.3788/IRLA20250051

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