Reflectometric measurements of PMD properties in long single-mode fibers

✍ Scribed by Andrea Galtarossa; Luca Palmieri

• Book ID: 104375476
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 680 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1068-5200
• DOI: 10.1016/s1068-5200(03)00026-9

✦ Synopsis

Polarization sensitive reflectometric measurements are effective tools for the characterization of polarization properties of optical-fiber link. The field of application of these techniques depends on whether they use a continuous wave source or a pulsed source to generate the probe signal. In the first case, reflectometric techniques may be successfully applied to perform single-end measurement of differential group delay and polarization dependent loss. In the second case-that is the case of polarization sensitive optical time domain reflectometry-the local birefringence of a single mode fiber can be measured and characterized. In this paper the theory and the applications of polarization sensitive reflectometric techniques are reviewed.