• DocumentCode
    421100
  • Title

    A novel tunable erbium-doped fiber ring laser for measuring polarization mode dispersion of optical fibers

  • Author

    Lu, Z.G. ; Sun, F.G. ; Xiao, G.Z. ; Grover, C.P.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Nat. Measurement Stand., Nat. Res. Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    23-27 Feb. 2004
  • Firstpage
    56
  • Abstract
    We describe the design and development of a novel tunable fiber laser and its application to polarization-mode dispersion measurements of optical fibers using broad-band orthogonal-pump four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier.
  • Keywords
    erbium; laser cavity resonators; laser tuning; multiwave mixing; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; optical pumping; ring lasers; broad-band orthogonal-pump; erbium-doped laser; four-wave mixing; optical fibers; polarization mode dispersion; semiconductor optical amplifier; tunable fiber laser; tunable ring laser;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2004. OFC 2004
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-772-5
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1359183