Title :
Distributed birefringence measurement for optical fibers and fiber based devices
Author :
Xiaoyi Bao ; Liang Chen
Author_Institution :
Phys. Dept., Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Abstract :
This paper presents three different methods to measure distributed birefringence based on Brillouin grating, BOTDA and Brillouin beat OTDR. The spatial resolution of less than 1 m is demonstrated with birefringence range of centimeters to a few tens of meters.
Keywords :
birefringence; diffraction gratings; optical fibres; optical time-domain reflectometry; BOTDA; Brillouin grating; OTDR; distributed birefringence measurement; fiber based devices; optical fibers; optical time-domain reflectometry; Educational institutions; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical modulation; Spatial resolution; Brillouin grating; Brillouin scattering; OFDR; OTDR; birefrigence;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Infocomm Technology (ICAIT), 2013 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hsinchu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0464-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICAIT.2013.6621469
