Measurement of Residual Chromatic Dispersion or OSNR via Nonlinear Spectral Evolution

Clément Courvoisier (1) , Julien Fatome (2) , Christophe Finot (1)

1 ICB - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne
2 SLCO

In this work, we report a new fiber architecture providing high accuracy measurements of both residual chromatic dispersion and optical signal to noise ratio. Taking advantage of the nonlinear spectral evolution of pulses propagating in a Kerr medium, we have numerically and experimentally validated the use an anomalous dispersive fiber combined with a central spectral filtering.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Clément Courvoisier, Julien Fatome, Christophe Finot. Measurement of Residual Chromatic Dispersion or OSNR via Nonlinear Spectral Evolution. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2011, 23 (9), pp.537-539. ⟨10.1109/LPT.2011.2113372⟩. ⟨hal-00562324⟩