Fully polarimetric optical time-domain reflectometer with 1-m spatial resolution

Author

Bebbington, D.H.O. ; Ellison, J.G. ; Schuh, R.E. ; Shan, X. ; Siddiqui, A.S. ; Walker, S.D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Syst. Eng., Essex Univ., Colchester, UK

fYear

1997

Firstpage

185

Lastpage

186

Abstract

In this paper, we make the first report of what we believe is the first fully polarization-sensitive, real-time optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR), which can measure the full polarization-scattering matrices along the fiber, leading to the evaluation of both the linear- and twist-induced circular birefringence distributions along the fiber. This enables the PMD properties to be evaluated for fibers exhibiting both types of birefringence as well as identifying fiber sections with or without twist

Keywords

birefringence; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; optical time-domain reflectometry; polarimeters; OTDR; birefringence; fiber sections; full polarization-scattering matrices; fully polarimetric optical time-domain reflectometer; linear-induced circular birefringence distributions; real-time optical time domain reflectometer; spatial resolution; twist-induced circular birefringence distributions; Birefringence; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber testing; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulses; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Pulse measurements; Spatial resolution; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication. OFC 97., Conference on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

1-55752-480-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1997.719807

Filename

719807