Measurement of Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD) with a Multiwavelength Fiber Laser

Shinji YAMASHITA  Teruyuki BABA  Yoshinori NAMIHIRA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E86-C   No.1   pp.59-62
Publication Date: 2003/01/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Optoelectronics
Keyword: 
polarization mode dispersion,  multiwavelength,  fiber laser,  erbium-doped fiber,  

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Summary: 
We propose and demonstrate a novel method to measure the polarization mode dispersion (PMD) of optical devices. The device under test (DUT) is installed in a fiber laser cavity which can operate at multiwavelength. PMD can be evaluated by the wavelength spacing of the multiwavelength laser output spectrum. In our method, the maximum extrema wavelength is easier to be identified than in the conventional fixed-analyzer (FA) method. We measure the PMD of polarization maintaining fibers (PMFs) and the ITU-T round robin KDD samples.