Title :
Highly sensitive dispersion map extraction from highly nonlinear fibers using BOTDA probing of parametric amplification
Author :
Alishahi, F. ; Vedadi, A. ; Denisov, A. ; Soto, Marcelo A. ; Mehrany, K. ; Bres, C.S. ; Thevenaz, Luc
Author_Institution :
Photonics Syst. Lab., Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
In this paper, by improving the experimental scheme, we have been able to measure the fiber optical parametric amplifier (FOPA) gain along the fiber with low noise, which enabled us to derive zero dispersion wavelength (ZDW) fluctuations as low as 0.02 nm along highly nonlinear fibers (HNLFs) with 2 meters longitudinal resolution.
Keywords :
Brillouin spectra; optical fibre dispersion; optical parametric amplifiers; BOTDA probing; FOPA gain; highly nonlinear fibers; highly sensitive dispersion map extraction; low noise; parametric amplification; zero dispersion wavelength fluctuations; Fluctuations; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Scattering;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/IQEC), 2013 Conference on and International Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0593-5
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6800926
