Title :
PMD measurement by using ultrafast coherent optical sampling
Author :
Ito, F. ; Okamoto, K.
Author_Institution :
NTT Access Network Service Syst. Labs., NTT Corp., Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract :
We adopt coherent optical sampling, which offers the reconstruction of ultrafast variation in the complex amplitude of x-y polarization, to create a novel technique for measuring the polarization mode dispersion (PMD) of optical devices.
Keywords :
frequency-domain analysis; optical variables measurement; polarisation; sampling methods; PMD measurement; optical devices; polarization mode dispersion; ultrafast coherent optical sampling; ultrafast variation reconstruction; x-y polarization; Linear optical sampling; Optical fiber; Polarization mode dispersion;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN 2010), 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nanjing
DOI :
10.1049/cp.2010.1196
