A tunable multiwavelength fiber ring laser for measuring polarization-mode dispersion in optical fibers

Author

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

Author_Institution

Inst. for Nat. Meas. Stand., Nat. Res. Council, Ottawa, Ont., Canada

Volume

16

Issue

5

fYear

2004

fDate

5/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1280

Lastpage

1282

Abstract

We describe and demonstrate a tunable triple-wavelength erbium-doped fiber ring laser along with a method of measuring polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) in optical fibers based on a broad-band orthogonal-pump four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier. The measured PMD results for optical fibers are in good agreement with values measured by means of commercial PMD testing equipment.

Keywords

erbium; laser cavity resonators; laser tuning; multiwave mixing; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical pumping; ring lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; EDFA; PMD; broad-band orthogonal pump; erbium-doped fiber amplifier; erbium-doped fiber ring laser; fiber ring laser; four-wave mixing; multiwavelength laser; optical fibers; polarization-mode dispersion; semiconductor optical amplifier; tunable laser; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber testing; Optical fibers; Polarization mode dispersion; Ring lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.826142

Filename

1291484