Title :
Measuring modal birefringence along a holey fiber by photon-counting OTDR
Author :
Inoue, Yoshinori ; Aiba, Takamitsu ; Shibata, Nori
Author_Institution :
Opt. Network Res. Dept., Optowave Lab. Inc., Kanagawa, Japan
fDate :
6/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A photon-counting optical-time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) with spatial resolution of 8 cm is used to measure the modal birefringence along a holey fiber. Modal birefringence of ∼10-6 is successfully recorded at 650 and 835 nm. The birefringence measured by the OTDR well coincides with that obtained from the measurements of polarization-mode dispersion.
Keywords :
birefringence; optical fibre testing; optical time-domain reflectometry; photon counting; 650 nm; 835 nm; holey fiber; modal birefringence; optical time-domain reflectometry; photon counting; polarization-mode dispersion; Birefringence; Hafnium; Holey fibers; Length measurement; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber testing; Optical pulses; Optical scattering; Spatial resolution; Birefringence; holey fiber (HF); optical-time-domain reflectometry; polarization-mode dispersion (PMD);
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2005.846954
