Abstract
Characterization of the wavelength dependence of fiber chromatic dispersion is crucial to optical-fiber communication. This parameter has previously been determined by using time-of- flight, phase-shift, interferometric, or mode-field-diameter measurements.1 We report a simple new technique that uses a tunable erbium-doped fiber-ring laser2 with an intracavity test fiber and a lightwave-spectrum analyzer. This technique is particularly useful for characterizing the erbium-doped fiber (EDF) and other components of mode-locked fiber lasers in which control of the total laser dispersion is imperative.
© 1993 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
N. Kagi, A. Oyobe, A. Fujisaki, and H. Ogoshi
ThA2 Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 1993
O. G. Okhotnikov and E. M. Dianov
CFJ8 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 1993
D. Abraham, R. Nagar, and G. Eisenstein
TUD3 Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications (OAA) 1993