Title :
PMD measurement based on delayed self-heterodyne OFDR and experimental comparison with ITU-T round robin measurements
Author :
Zou, N. ; Yoshida, M. ; Namihira, Y. ; Ito, H.
Author_Institution :
Res. Inst. of Electr. Commun., Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan
fDate :
1/31/2002 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A new measurement method of polarisation mode dispersion (PMD) in optical fibres based on delayed self-heterodyne optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR) technology is proposed and demonstrated on an automatic measurement system. The results of intercomparison of the ITU-T international PMD round robin measurements on two polarisation-maintaining fibre specimens are presented
Keywords :
frequency-domain analysis; heterodyne detection; measurement errors; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; reflectometry; ITU-T international PMD round robin measurements; PMD measurement; automatic measurement system; delayed self-heterodyne OFDR; delayed self-heterodyne optical frequency domain reflectometry; intercomparison; optical fibres; polarisation mode dispersion; polarisation-maintaining fibre specimens;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20020073
