Method for improving the resolution and accuracy against birefringence dispersion in distributed polarization cross-talk measurements |
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Authors: | Zhihong Li Zhuo Meng Xiaojun Chen Tiegen Liu X Steve Yao |
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Affiliation: | Polarization Research Center, College of Precision Instrument & Opto-electronics Engineering and Key Laboratory of Opto-electronics Information and Technical Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China. |
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Abstract: | We present a novel method for improving the spatial resolution and amplitude accuracy of distributed polarization cross-talk measurements in a polarization maintaining (PM) fiber against its birefringence dispersion. We show that the broadening of measured polarization cross-talk peaks caused by birefringence dispersion can be restored by simply multiplying the measurement data with a compensation function. The birefringence dispersion variable in the function can be obtained by finding the widths of measured cross-talk envelopes at known distances along the fiber. We demonstrate that this method can effectively improve spatial resolution and amplitude accuracy of the space-resolved polarization cross-talk measurements of long PM fibers. |
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