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Front Cover

Fiber Optic Measurement Techniques

Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Optical Devices

Chapter 2: Basic Instrumentation for Optical Measurement

Chapter 3: Characterization of Optical Devices

Chapter 4: Optical Fiber Measurement

4.0 Introduction

4.1 Classification of Fiber Types

4.2 Measurement of Fiber Mode-Field Distribution

4.3 Fiber Attenuation Measurement and OTDR

4.4 Fiber Dispersion Measurements

4.5 Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD) Measurement

4.5.1 Representation of Fiber Birefringence and PMD Parameter

4.5.2 Pulse Delay Method

4.5.3 The Interferometric Method

4.5.4 Poincare Arc Method

4.5.5 Fixed Analyzer Method

4.5.6 The Jones Matrix Method

4.5.7 The Mueller Matrix Method

4.6 Determination of Polarization-Dependent Loss

4.7 PMD Sources and Emulators

4.8 Measurement of Fiber Nonlinearity

References

Chapter 5: Optical System Performance Measurements

Index

Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD) Measurement 150 140 130 Output pulse width (ps) 120 110 100 90 80 70 10 D = 17ps/nm/km L = 10km 415 20 30 40 50 60 70 Input pulse width (ps) 80 90 100 Figure 4.5.4 Output pulse width versus input pulse width in a 10 km fiber with 17 ps/nm/km chromatic dispersion parameter.

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