The Application of Hadamard Matrixes in the SNR Enhancement of Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry(OTDR)

Results in one field necessarily give insight into the others, and all have much potential for scientific and technological application. The Hadamard-transform technique once been applied to the spectrometry also has its use in the SNR Enhancement of OTDR. In this report, a new set of code (Simplex-codes) is discussed and where the addition gain of SNR come from is implied.

Authors:

• Mingyu Zhong
• Yi Xie

Keywords:

• Hadamard-transform
• matrixes
• averaging
• opticaltime-domain reflectometry (OTDR).

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