Complete Dispersion Characterization of Few Mode Fibers by OLCI Technique

Renaud Gabet (1, 2) , Elodie Le Cren (3) , Michel Gadonna (3) , C. Jin (4) , B. Ung (4) , P. Sillard (5) , H. G. Nguyen , Yves Jaouën (1, 2) , Monique Thual (3) , S. Larochelle (4)

1 LTCI - Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information
2 COMELEC - Département Communications & Electronique
3 FOTON - Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON
4 COPL - Centre d'Optique, Photonique et Laser
5 Prismian group

Few-mode optical fibers (FMFs) are useful for many applications such as space-division-multiplexing (SDM), high laser power generation and transport, dispersion compensation, etc. The emergence of SDM induces considerable requirements in term of FMF characterization (chromatic dispersion, birefringence, modal content, bending losses). All LP modes of a FMF can be simultaneously characterized using phase-sensitive Optical Low-Coherence Interferometry (OLCI). The differential modal group delay and absolute chromatic dispersion values of each mode are retrieved from a single measurement without spatial mode transformers.

Mots clés: Optical fibers; Optical interferometry; Chromatic dispersion

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Renaud Gabet, Elodie Le Cren, Michel Gadonna, C. Jin, B. Ung, et al.. Complete Dispersion Characterization of Few Mode Fibers by OLCI Technique. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2015, 33 (6), pp.1155-1160. ⟨10.1109/JLT.2014.2376702⟩. ⟨hal-01144366⟩