Title :
Wavelength-dependent PDL measurements in fiber gratings
Author :
Zhu, Y. ; Berini, P. ; Simova, E. ; Grover, C.P.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Eng., Ottawa Univ., Ont., Canada
Abstract :
Summary form only given. We present wavelength dependent polarisation dependent loss (PDL) measurements for fiber optic gratings used in reflection and transmission, by applying the Jones matrix method, the Mueller matrix method, and the polarization scanning method (also known as power min/max). These techniques are used to characterize long period gratings used in transmission for gain flattening of EDFAs, and to characterize single-channel fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) used in reflection for dispersion compensation.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; optical fibre losses; EDFA; Jones matrix method; Mueller matrix method; dispersion compensation; fiber gratings; gain flattening; long period gratings; polarisation dependent loss; polarization scanning method; Bragg gratings; Fiber gratings; Loss measurement; Optical fiber losses; Optical fiber polarization; Optical reflection; Page description languages; Power measurement; Propagation losses; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO '99. Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-595-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.1999.833901
