Title :
Four-wave mixing OTDR and its application to the measurement of nonlinear refractive index and group-velocity dispersion of optical fibers
Author :
Tukushima, Y. ; Kikuchi, Kazuro ; Nagawa, Hideki
Author_Institution :
Res. Center for Adv. Sci. & Technol., Tokyo Univ., Japan
Abstract :
We propose and experiment with a new configuration of four-wave mixing OTDR to measure the Kerr nonlinearity and group-velocity dispersion (GVD) of optical fibers. We succeed in reconstructing the GVD distribution by using this method.
Keywords :
multiwave mixing; optical Kerr effect; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre testing; optical time-domain reflectometry; refractive index measurement; GVD distribution; Kerr nonlinearity; four-wave mixing OTDR; group-velocity dispersion; nonlinear refractive index measurement; optical fiber dispersion; optical fiber testing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 1996. ECOC '96. 22nd European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Oslo, Norway
Print_ISBN :
82-423-0418-1
