Measurement of the differential group delay in installed optical fibers using polarization multiplexed solitons
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 1999

We experimentally demonstrate a new technique for measurement of the differential group delay (DGD) in optical fibers using polarization-division multiplexed (PDM) solitons: the change in the separation of orthogonally polarized solitons propagating along different principal axes in a fiber equals the DGD at the signal wavelength. Based on this principle, we use PDM solitons to measure the accumulated DGD at different distances along a 400-km installed fiber. The measured DGD exhibits the expected square-root-of-length dependence, corresponding to a polarization-mode dispersion of 0.26 ps/km1/2. The results are in excellent agreement with those obtained by a commercial instrument utilizing Jones matrix eigenanalysis.

Författare

Bamdad Bakhshi

Institutionen för mikroelektronik

Jonas Hansryd

Institutionen för mikroelektronik

Peter Andrekson

Institutionen för mikroelektronik

Jonas Brentel

Institutionen för mikroelektronik

Erling Kolltveit

Institutionen för mikroelektronik

Bengt-Erik Olsson

Institutionen för mikroelektronik

Magnus Karlsson

Institutionen för mikroelektronik

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

1041-1135 (ISSN) 19410174 (eISSN)

Vol. 11 5 593-595

Ämneskategorier

Telekommunikation

Atom- och molekylfysik och optik

Annan elektroteknik och elektronik

DOI

10.1109/68.759409

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