• DocumentCode
    2846522
  • Title

    In-line, high speed fibre polarimeter with large calibration bandwidth and accurate reference-free calibration procedure

  • Author

    Mikhailov, V. ; Dunn, S. ; Westbrook, P.S.

  • Author_Institution
    OFS Labs., Somerset, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-23 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate an integrated HiBi fibre polarimeter with 32nm single calibration bandwidth (1% standard deviation of DOP) and RF bandwidth in excess of 500MHz. We also describe an accurate self-calibration procedure that does not require any special polarization reference optics.
  • Keywords
    calibration; high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre polarisation; polarimeters; RF bandwidth; calibration bandwidth; inline high speed fibre polarimeter; integrated HiBi fibre polarimeter; reference-free calibration; self-calibration; size 32 nm; Bandwidth; Calibration; Detectors; Gratings; Measurement by laser beam; Optical fibers; Wavelength measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Torino
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8536-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8534-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621342
  • Filename
    5621342