DocumentCode
161146
Title
Measurement of distributed mode coupling in a few-mode fiber using a Brillouin optical time domain reflectometer
Author
An Li ; Qian Hu ; Di Che ; Yifei Wang ; Shieh, William
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
fYear
2014
fDate
21-25 Sept. 2014
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
We report non-disruptive measurement of distributed mode coupling in a five mode fiber using a spatial light modulator based Brillouin OTDR. Mode coupling between LP01 mode and higher order modes is obtained with a spatial resolution of 50 m.
Keywords
optical fibre couplers; optical fibre testing; optical time-domain reflectometry; spatial light modulators; Brillouin OTDR; Brillouin optical time domain reflectometer; LP01 mode; distributed mode coupling; few-mode fiber; higher order modes; spatial light modulator; spatial resolution; Couplings; Optical fiber polarization; Optical reflection; Optical variables measurement; Scattering;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location
Cannes
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6963931
Filename
6963931
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