• 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