POLARIZATION OTDR MEASUREMENTS AND THEORETICAL-ANALYSIS ON FIBERS WITH TWIST AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR ESTIMATION OF PMD

Authors
SCHUH RE ELLISON JG SIDDIQUI AS BEBBINGTON DHO
Citation
Re. Schuh et al., POLARIZATION OTDR MEASUREMENTS AND THEORETICAL-ANALYSIS ON FIBERS WITH TWIST AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR ESTIMATION OF PMD, Electronics Letters, 32(4), 1996, pp. 387-388
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
Electronics Letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00135194
Volume
32
Issue
4
Year of publication
1996
Pages
387 - 388
Database
ISI
SICI code
0013-5194(1996)32:4<387:POMATO>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
The authors present an analytical solution for the back scattered stat e of polarisation (SOP) from a uniformly linear birefringent fibre sub ject to elastic twist which shows that the twist significantly influen ces the periodicity of the observed signal from the polarisation optic al time domain reflectometry (POTDR), and has to be taken into account when estimating polarisation mode dispersion (PMD) using this techniq ue. Experimental results confirm the predictions.