DocumentCode
328510
Title
Four-wave mixing OTDR and its application to the measurement of nonlinear refractive index and group-velocity dispersion of optical fibers
Author
Tukushima, Y. ; Kikuchi, Kazuro ; Nagawa, Hideki
Author_Institution
Res. Center for Adv. Sci. & Technol., Tokyo Univ., Japan
Volume
3
fYear
1996
fDate
19-19 Sept. 1996
Firstpage
229
Abstract
We propose and experiment with a new configuration of four-wave mixing OTDR to measure the Kerr nonlinearity and group-velocity dispersion (GVD) of optical fibers. We succeed in reconstructing the GVD distribution by using this method.
Keywords
multiwave mixing; optical Kerr effect; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre testing; optical time-domain reflectometry; refractive index measurement; GVD distribution; Kerr nonlinearity; four-wave mixing OTDR; group-velocity dispersion; nonlinear refractive index measurement; optical fiber dispersion; optical fiber testing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication, 1996. ECOC '96. 22nd European Conference on
Conference_Location
Oslo, Norway
Print_ISBN
82-423-0418-1
Type
conf
Filename
715654
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