Direct chromatic dispersion determination of higher-order mode fibers using OLCR technique

Jaouën, Yves; Palavicini, C.; Obaton, Anne-Françoise; Moreau, C.; Sillard, Pierre

doi:10.1109/cleo.2005.202197

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“…In particular, characterizing the chromatic dispersions and the dispersion slopes of each mode in a FMF is required for an effectively dispersion compensating FMF design. The chromatic dispersions of higher-order modes and their associated measurement techniques have been the subject of many recent studies [9][10][11]. The group delay and dispersion of higher order modes in FMFs were obtained by measuring optical fringe spacing of an intermodal interferometer at different source wavelengths [9], but this measurement has a length limitation of a few meters of a sample fiber due to finite spectral bandwidths in tunable lasers used in this technique.…”

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“…These measurement techniques can only determine the relative dispersion of the higher order mode of a higher order mode fiber which supports two modes [9,10]. In order to overcome this drawback, Y. Jaouën et al have recently suggested a phase-sensitive optical low-coherence reflectometer (OLCR) technique for chromatic dispersion measurement of FMFs [11]. However, in this method, high quality phase measurement for each mode is required to measure the dispersion of a higher order mode fiber accurately.…”

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Optical frequency-domain chromatic dispersion measurement method for higher-order modes in an optical fiber

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Jung²,

Oh³

et al. 2005

Opt. Express

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We propose a new chromatic dispersion measurement method for the higher-order modes of an optical fiber using optical frequency modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) interferometry. An optical fiber which supports few excited modes was prepared for our experiments. Three different guiding modes of the fiber were identified by using far-field spatial beam profile measurements and confirmed with numerical mode analysis. By using the principle of a conventional FMWC interferometry with a tunable external cavity laser, we have demonstrated that the chromatic dispersion of a few-mode optical fiber can be obtained directly and quantitatively as well as qualitatively. We have also compared our measurement results with those of conventional modulation phase-shift method.

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