• DocumentCode
    814676
  • Title

    Measuring modal birefringence along a holey fiber by photon-counting OTDR

  • Author

    Inoue, Yoshinori ; Aiba, Takamitsu ; Shibata, Nori

  • Author_Institution
    Opt. Network Res. Dept., Optowave Lab. Inc., Kanagawa, Japan
  • Volume
    17
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    6/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1238
  • Lastpage
    1240
  • Abstract
    A photon-counting optical-time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) with spatial resolution of 8 cm is used to measure the modal birefringence along a holey fiber. Modal birefringence of ∼10-6 is successfully recorded at 650 and 835 nm. The birefringence measured by the OTDR well coincides with that obtained from the measurements of polarization-mode dispersion.
  • Keywords
    birefringence; optical fibre testing; optical time-domain reflectometry; photon counting; 650 nm; 835 nm; holey fiber; modal birefringence; optical time-domain reflectometry; photon counting; polarization-mode dispersion; Birefringence; Hafnium; Holey fibers; Length measurement; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber testing; Optical pulses; Optical scattering; Spatial resolution; Birefringence; holey fiber (HF); optical-time-domain reflectometry; polarization-mode dispersion (PMD);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LPT.2005.846954
  • Filename
    1432788
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=814676