EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF INTERMODAL DISPERSION IN A 2-CORE OPTICAL-FIBER

Authors
CHIANG KS CHOW YT RICHARDSON DJ TAVERNER D DONG L REEKIE L LO KM
Citation
Ks. Chiang et al., EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF INTERMODAL DISPERSION IN A 2-CORE OPTICAL-FIBER, Optics communications, 143(4-6), 1997, pp. 189-192
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
00304018
Volume
143
Issue
4-6
Year of publication
1997
Pages
189 - 192
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-4018(1997)143:4-6<189:EDOIDI>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
The recent prediction that intermodal dispersion could affect the prop agation of short pulses in a two-core optical fibre was confirmed expe rimentally. A picosecond pulse at 1.548 mu m launched into one core of a meters-long two-core fibre was found to come out of either core of the fibre as two temporally separate pulses. By measuring the time del ay between these two pulses, the intermodal dispersion in the fibre wa s estimated to be 1.13 ps/m, in good agreement with theory. (C) 1997 E lsevier Science B.V.