• DocumentCode
    516140
  • 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
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    21-25 March 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5465854