DocumentCode
688653
Title
Mapping dispersion fluctuations along optical fibers using brillouin probing and a fast analytic calculation
Author
Alishahi, F. ; Vedadi, A. ; Denisov, A. ; Soto, Marcelo A. ; Mehrany, K. ; Bres, C.S. ; Thevenaz, Luc
Author_Institution
Photonic Syst. Lab., Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
fYear
2013
fDate
9-14 June 2013
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
A simple analytic formula is derived to extract tiny dispersion fluctuations along highly nonlinear fibers from distributed measurements of parametric gain. A refined BOTDA scheme, suitable to track Kerr processes, enables low noise measurements.
Keywords
Brillouin spectra; noise measurement; optical Kerr effect; optical fibre dispersion; optical variables measurement; Brillouin optical time domain analysis; Brillouin probing; Kerr processes; dispersion fluctuation mapping; distributed parametric gain measurements; fast analytic calculation; highly nonlinear fibers; low noise measurements; optical fibers; refined BOTDA scheme; tiny dispersion fluctuations; Fluctuations; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber testing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location
San Jose, CA
Type
conf
Filename
6833028
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