PMD Measurement of Hollow-Core Photonic Bandgap Fiber by Investigating Power Penalty of Optically Generated Microwave Signals

Author

Yu, Xianbin ; Zheng, Xiaoping ; Zhang, Hanyi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing

Volume

19

Issue

5

fYear

2007

fDate

3/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

279

Lastpage

281

Abstract

A simple method based on carrier suppression modulation for measuring first-order polarization-mode dispersion of hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber (HC-PBGF) is proposed and investigated. By adjusting the incident optical wavelength and measuring the power penalty of optically generated microwave signals, the wavelength-dependent differential group delay (DGD) in HC-PBGF can be obtained. Moreover, this proposed method is chromatic-dispersion-insensitive. The experimental results indicate that a segment of 20-m HC-PBGF exhibits highly birefringent DGD of 25, 59, and 84 ps with measurement error less than 2 ps for the incident optical wavelength of 1560, 1575, and 1580 nm, respectively

Keywords

birefringence; delays; measurement errors; microwave generation; microwave photonics; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; photonic band gap; 1560 nm; 1575 nm; 1580 nm; 20 m; 25 ps; 59 ps; 84 ps; carrier suppression modulation; chromatic dispersion insensitivity; differential group delay; first-order polarization-mode dispersion; hollow-core fiber; measurement error; optically generated microwave signals; photonic bandgap fiber; polarization-mode dispersion measurement; power penalty; High power microwave generation; Microwave generation; Microwave measurements; Optical modulation; Photonic bandgap fibers; Polarization mode dispersion; Power generation; Power measurement; Signal generators; Wavelength measurement; Hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber (HC-PBGF); microwave photonics; polarization-mode dispersion (PMD); power penalty;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2007.891215

Filename

4084554