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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
