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  • Optical Fiber Communications Conference
  • OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (Optica Publishing Group, 2002),
  • paper ThGG3

A simple method for measurement of chromatic dispersion of optical fiber by using bi-directional modulation of a Mach-Zehnder modulator

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Abstract

The chromatic dispersion of optical fiber is critical to the design and construction of long-haul and high-speed optical communication systems and to the manufacture of optical fiber. A variety of techniques have been developed for measuring the chromatic dispersion of optical fiber such as time-of-flight method,1 phase-shift method,2,3 and interfero-metric method.4 The accuracy of the time-of-flight method is limited by pulse width, detector bandwidth, and laser and electronics instability. The phase-shift method requires the complicated measurement systems and expensive equipments such as a relatively high-speed optical receiver. The problem of the inter-fero-metric method is that the measured optical fiber length should be limited to about a few meters only.

© 2002 Optical Society of America

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