Optics: measuring and testing – For optical fiber or waveguide inspection
Patent
1996-07-17
1999-09-21
Font, Frank G.
Optics: measuring and testing
For optical fiber or waveguide inspection
250551, 25022718, 25022723, G01N 2100
Patent
active
059561319
ABSTRACT:
A system and method in which the chromatic dispersion characteristic, as a function of distance along a section of transmissive fiber, is measured. First and second optical signals are launched into a fiber under test to thereby generate, by a four-wave mixing process in the fiber, a probe signal. Because of a wave-vector phase mismatch, the probe signal power oscillates with a spatial frequency that can be measured as a function of distance in the fiber. The intensity oscillations are measurable as, for example, temporal variations in the Rayleigh backscattered light detected at the input end of the fiber. According to the present invention, the dispersion parameter at one or both of the first and second optical signal wavelengths, as a function of length along the fiber, is derived directly from these intensity oscillation measurements. From this information, it is possible to further derive maps at other wavelengths of interest.
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K. Inoue, "Four-Wave Mixing in an Optical Fiber in the Zero-Dispersion Wavelength Region", J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 10, pp. 1553-1561 (1992).
Mamyshev Pavel V.
Mollenauer Linn Frederick
Bartholomew Steven R.
Dinicola Brian K.
Font Frank G.
Lucent Technologies - Inc.
Ratliff Reginald A.
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