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Polarization-mode dispersion measurement by an optical time-domain reflectometer with polarimetry assuming
T Ozeki1, T Kobayashi, K Nakayama
1Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sophia University, Tokyo 102-8554, Japan. t-ozeki@gentei.ee.sophia.ac.jp
Optics Letters
|August 9, 2003
Abstract:
In previous work on polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) measurement with an optical time-domain reflectometer with polarimetry (p-OTDR), scatterers were assumed to be a cloud of small spherical particles in a fiber. We have found that the p-OTDR waveforms were fitted well by modified Mueller matrices, assuming scattering by a cloud of nonspherical particles. We realized a PMD measurement based on the p-OTDR Jones matrix eigenanalysis (JME) method. The measured PMD was consistent with that of JME standard measurement with transmission-type polarimetry.