Ultralow Chromatic Dispersion Measurement of Optical Fibers With a Tunable Fiber Laser

B. Auguie (1) , Arnaud Mussot (2) , A. Boucon (3) , E. Lantz (3) , T. Sylvestre (3)

1 PHYSICS DEPARTMENT - Physics Department
2 PhLAM - Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules - UMR 8523
3 FEMTO-ST - Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique, Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (UMR 6174)

We describe a novel convenient technique to allow for the accurate measurement of the dispersion coefficients till fourthorder in the zero-dispersion wavelength region of single-mode optical fibers. The proposed method is based on a careful spectral analysis of modulation instability occurring in both normal and anomalous dispersion regime and the associated dispersive waves emitted by soliton fission. It simply requires a high-power tunable continuous-wave fiber laser and an optical spectrum analyzer and is able to retrieve both the sign and magnitude of dispersion coefficients with enhanced precision.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

B. Auguie, Arnaud Mussot, A. Boucon, E. Lantz, T. Sylvestre. Ultralow Chromatic Dispersion Measurement of Optical Fibers With a Tunable Fiber Laser. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2006, 18 (17), pp.1825-1827. ⟨10.1109/LPT.2006.881148⟩. ⟨hal-00172292⟩