Novel Method for the Measurement of Chromatic Dispersion of Photonic Crystal Fibers

Author

Ran Gao ; Yi Jiang ; Wenhui Ding ; Zhen Wang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Opto-Electron., Beijing Inst. of Technol., Beijing, China

Volume

25

Issue

2

fYear

2013

fDate

Jan.15, 2013

Firstpage

129

Lastpage

132

Abstract

A novel method for the measurement of chromatic dispersion (CD) profiles of photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) by using a tip interferometer is presented. A PCF tip interferometer is formed by splicing a short section of the PCF to a single mode fiber. The CD coefficient of the PCF is measured from 1525 to 1565 nm by using the white-light interferometry. The result of the proposed method agrees with that of the conventional swept wavelength interferometry. The maximum variation is only 0.084 ps/nm·km at the wavelength of 1537.672 nm.

Keywords

aberrations; holey fibres; optical dispersion; photonic crystals; CD coefficient; chromatic dispersion; conventional swept wavelength interferometry; photonic crystal fibers; single mode fiber; tip interferometer; wavelength 1525 nm to 1565 nm; white-light interferometry; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Optical interferometry; Wavelength measurement; Chromatic dispersion; photonic crystal fibers; tip interferometer;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2012.2229462

Filename

6359753