Title :
Distributed birefringence measurement of polarization maintaining fiber using transient Brillouin grating
Author :
Dong, Yongkang ; Chen, Liang ; Bao, Xiaoyi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Abstract :
We propose a true distributed birefringence measurement of polarization-maintaining fiber based on transient Brillouin grating. A birefringence variation of 2.5 × 10-6 along 8 m Bow-tie fiber is measured with 20 cm spatial resolution.
Keywords :
Brillouin spectra; birefringence; diffraction gratings; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; bow tie fiber; distributed birefringence measurement; polarization maintaining fiber; size 8 m; transient Brillouin grating; Birefringence; Brillouin scattering; Fiber gratings; Frequency measurement; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber testing; Optical pulses; Optical scattering; Probes; Spatial resolution;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-884-1
