Distributed measurement of chromatic dispersion along an optical fiber transmission system

Author

Baig, Mirza Imran ; Miyauchi, Tohru ; Imai, Masaaki

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Muroran Inst. of Technol., Hokkaido, Japan

fYear

2005

fDate

22-24 June 2005

Firstpage

146

Lastpage

151

Abstract

In this paper, a nondestructive measurement technique, which uses a four wavelength bidirectional optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) to measure the chromatic dispersion distribution along an optical fiber transmission system, has been presented. A new formulation has been developed to enhance the correction factor, which leads to an improvement in the measurement results of a pre-existing method and the obtained experimental results are in good agreement with those obtained by the interferometric technique.

Keywords

optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical fibre testing; reflectometry; bidirectional reflectometer; chromatic dispersion; correction factor; distributed dispersion measurement; four wavelength reflectometer; nondestructive measurement; optical fiber transmission; optical time domain reflectometer; Chromatic dispersion; Fiber nonlinear optics; Light scattering; Optical attenuators; Optical fibers; Optical mixing; Optical pulses; Optical scattering; Pulse measurements; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fibres and Optical Passive Components, 2005. Proceedings of 2005 IEEE/LEOS Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8949-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WFOPC.2005.1462116

Filename

1462116