• DocumentCode
    1651767
  • Title

    Distributed birefringence measurement of a 500-m polarization-maintaining fiber with a 20-cm resolution based on Brillouin dynamic grating

  • Author

    Dong, Yongkang ; Zhang, Hongying ; Lu, Zhiwei ; Chen, Liang ; Bao, Xiaoyi

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Opto-Electron., Harbin Inst. of Technol., Harbin, China
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We propose a novel scheme to realize distributed birefringence measurement over a 500-m polarization-maintaining fiber with a 20-cm resolution based on Brillouin dynamic grating, observing three characteristic periods of the birefringence variation.
  • Keywords
    Brillouin spectra; birefringence; diffraction gratings; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; Brillouin dynamic grating; birefringence variation; distributed birefringence measurement; polarization maintaining fiber; size 500 m; Frequency measurement; Laser excitation; Length measurement; Optical fiber polarization; Probes; Pulse measurements; Scattering;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6325588