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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6963931