Theoretical Analysis and Primary Experimental Verification of Reflectometric Measurement of Polarization Mode Dispersion in an Optical Fiber Link with Polarization-Dependent Loss
Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany
Proceedings: ECOC 2007
Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Dong, H.; Tang, M.; Shum, P. (Network Technology Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University, 4th Storey Research Technol Plaza, 50 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637553)
Gong, Y. D. (Institute for Inforcomm Research, Singapore)
Abstract:
We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that the differential group delay and differential attenuation slope of an optical fiber with polarization-dependent loss can be explicitly obtained by reflectometric measurements in optical frequency and fiber length domains.