Title:

Testing of highly doped and photonic crystal optical fibers, Journal of Telekommunications and Information Technology, 2008, nr 3

Creator:

Borzycki, Krzysztof

Subject and Keywords:

temperature cycling ; mechanical testing ; polarization mode dispersion ; measurements ; birefringence ; optical fiber splicing ; highly doped fiber ; photonic crystal fiber ; testing

Description:

The paper presents optical measurements – spectral loss, OTDR and PMD, temperature cycling and mechanical tests – bending, twist and crush, performed on Yb-doped single mode fibers and small-core photonic crystal fibers (PCF). Several issues related specifically to characterization of such specialty fibers, like measurement errors and artifacts as well as coupling of test instruments to samples are presented. Of particular importance is reliable and low-loss fusion splicing of specialty fibers to standard single mode fibers (SMF), as most commercially available fiber test instruments are fitted with SMF interfaces only.

Publisher:

Instytut Łączności - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy, Warszawa

Date:

2008, nr 3

Resource Type:

artykuł

Format:

application/pdf

DOI:

10.26636/jtit.2008.3.889

ISSN:

1509-4553

eISSN:

1899-8852

Source:

Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology

Language:

ang

Rights Management:

Biblioteka Naukowa Instytutu Łączności