Time Resolved Chirp Measurement Based on a Polarization-Maintaining Fiber

Author

Chaibi, Mohamed Essghair ; Hoang Trung Nguyen ; Gosset, Christophe ; Grillot, Frederic ; Erasme, Didier

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. & Electron., Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France

Volume

27

Issue

14

fYear

2015

fDate

July15, 15 2015

Firstpage

1557

Lastpage

1560

Abstract

In high-speed optical networks, quantifying both the intensity and the frequency behaviors of optical signals has become a crucial task to evaluate transmission performance. In this letter, we report on a new technique to characterize optical signals. It is based on low-cost components and its operating mode is easy to provide accurate and fast measurements. The proposed technique is experimentally validated with signals whose characteristics are known. It is also tested with different optical transmitters.

Keywords

chirp modulation; optical fibre networks; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; optical transmitters; time resolved spectra; high-speed optical networks; optical signal intensity quantification; optical transmission performance evaluation; optical transmitters; polarization-maintaining fiber; time resolved chirp measurement; Chirp; Frequency measurement; Frequency modulation; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Optical transmitters; Frequency chirp; Interferometry; Polarization-Maintaining Fiber; interferometry; polarization-maintaining fiber;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2015.2431853

Filename

7105355