• DocumentCode
    3365517
  • Title

    Distributed birefringence measurement for optical fibers and fiber based devices

  • Author

    Xiaoyi Bao ; Liang Chen

  • Author_Institution
    Phys. Dept., Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    6-9 July 2013
  • Firstpage
    3
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    This paper presents three different methods to measure distributed birefringence based on Brillouin grating, BOTDA and Brillouin beat OTDR. The spatial resolution of less than 1 m is demonstrated with birefringence range of centimeters to a few tens of meters.
  • Keywords
    birefringence; diffraction gratings; optical fibres; optical time-domain reflectometry; BOTDA; Brillouin grating; OTDR; distributed birefringence measurement; fiber based devices; optical fibers; optical time-domain reflectometry; Educational institutions; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical modulation; Spatial resolution; Brillouin grating; Brillouin scattering; OFDR; OTDR; birefrigence;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advanced Infocomm Technology (ICAIT), 2013 6th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Hsinchu
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-0464-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICAIT.2013.6621469
  • Filename
    6621469