Abstract

Measurements of pulse dispersion in conventional Selfoc fibers have been carried out. The principal light source was a pulsed mode-locked ruby laser. Qualitative agreement has been found with theory, which predicts multimode operation and, hence, large pulse dispersion in such fibers under greatly mismatched launching conditions. Under such conditions, we have observed dispersion equivalent to ~20 nsec/km.

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Evaluation of material dispersion using a nanosecond optical pulse radiator

M. Horiguchi, Y. Ohmori, and T. Miya
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