Distributed birefringence measurement in optical fibres

Author

Wuilpart, M. ; Rogers, A.J. ; Defosse, Y. ; Mégret, P. ; Blondel, M.

Author_Institution

Electromagnetisme et Telecommun., Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

342

Abstract

We describe a technique for the measurement of the birefringence spatial distribution in a single-mode optical fibre with a resolution of 1 meter. This technique is based on a polarization-OTDR set-up using a rotary linear polariser. We report results performed on different types of fibres: step-index, dispersion shifted and dispersion compensating fibres.

Keywords

Rayleigh scattering; backscatter; birefringence; light polarisation; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre testing; optical time-domain reflectometry; optical variables measurement; PMD; Rayleigh backscattered field; birefringence spatial distribution; dispersion compensating fibres; dispersion shifted fibres; distributed birefringence measurement; optical time domain reflectometry; polarization mode dispersion; polarization-OTDR; rotary linear polariser; single-mode optical fibres; step-index fibres; Birefringence; Concatenated codes; Educational institutions; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical propagation; Optical retarders; Polarization mode dispersion; Spatial resolution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6705-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.2001.989657

Filename

989657