Title :
High-dimensional Stokes-space analysis for monitoring fast change of mode dispersion in few-mode fibers
Author :
Qian Hu ; Xi Chen ; An Li ; Shieh, William
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Abstract :
We adopt high-dimensional Stokes-space analysis to measure the time evolution of the mode dispersion in few-mode fibers. One advantage of the method is that the laser phase noise is intrinsically cancelled.
Keywords :
laser noise; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; few-mode fibers; high-dimensional Stokes-space analysis; laser phase noise cancellation; mode dispersion; time evolution; Fluctuations; Measurement by laser beam; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Phase noise; Vectors;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.W3D.3
