Fiber nonlinear coefficient measurement scheme based on four-wave mixing method with externally modulated laser source

Author

Batagelj, Bostjan ; Vidmar, Matjaz

Author_Institution

Lab. of Opt. Commun., Ljubljana Univ., Slovenia

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

6/24/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

184

Abstract

In this paper, we present measurement scheme for determining the optical fiber non-linear coefficient γ, using externally modulated continuous wave laser source. The measurement technique is based on four-wave mixing. The measurement source which uses one laser and one optical erbium-doped fiber amplifier only is described precisely. The proposed simple measurement scheme is polarization independent, enables high sensitivity and accuracy, and is applicable to all currently available types of fiber.

Keywords

measurement by laser beam; measurement errors; multiwave mixing; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre testing; optical modulation; sensitivity; externally modulated continuous wave laser source; externally modulated laser source; fiber nonlinear coefficient measurement scheme; four-wave mixing method; high accuracy; high sensitivity; measurement scheme; measurement source; optical erbium-doped fiber amplifier; optical fiber nonlinear coefficient; polarization independent; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Four-wave mixing; Measurement techniques; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2002. Proceedings of the 2002 4th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7375-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2002.1009541

Filename

1009541