Chromatic dispersion distribution measurement along a single-mode optical fiber

Author

Nakajima, Kazuhide ; Ohashi, Masaharu ; Tateda, Mitsuhiro

Author_Institution

NTT Access Network Syst. Labs, Ibaraki, Japan

Volume

15

Issue

7

fYear

1997

fDate

7/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1095

Lastpage

1101

Abstract

A nondestructive measurement technique, which uses a four-wavelength bidirectional optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) to measure the chromatic dispersion distribution along a single-mode fiber, is compared with the destructive interferometric technique. The experimental results obtained by this technique are in good agreement with those obtained by the interferometric technique. In addition, a measurement procedure is proposed for a transmission line composed of different types of single-mode fiber. These results show that this technique is extremely useful for the design of wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) and finite difference multiplexer (FDM) optical communication systems

Keywords

measurement theory; nondestructive testing; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre testing; optical time-domain reflectometry; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM; chromatic dispersion distribution; chromatic dispersion distribution measurement; destructive interferometric technique; finite difference multiplexer; four-wavelength bidirectional optical time domain reflectometer; measurement procedure; nondestructive measurement technique; optical communication systems; optical fibre testing; optical fibre theory; single-mode optical fiber; wavelength division multiplexer; Chromatic dispersion; Finite difference methods; Measurement techniques; Optical fiber communication; Optical interferometry; Time measurement; Transmission line measurements; Ultraviolet sources; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.596954

Filename

596954