• DocumentCode
    994258
  • Title

    Direct measurement of second-order dispersion in short optical fibres using white-light interferometry

  • Author

    Stone, Joshua ; Marcuse, D.

  • Author_Institution
    AT&T Bell Laboratories, Crawford Hill Laboratory, Holmdel, USA
  • Volume
    20
  • Issue
    18
  • fYear
    1984
  • Firstpage
    751
  • Lastpage
    752
  • Abstract
    We report the first direct measurement of the second-order dispersion coefficient ß. The measurement was done on a 1 m-long single-mode fibre with the help of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer and a white-light source.
  • Keywords
    light interferometry; optical dispersion; optical fibres; optical testing; optical variables measurement; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; direct measurement; second-order dispersion; short optical fibres; single-mode fibre; white-light interferometry;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19840513
  • Filename
    4249018