Measurements of intermodal dispersion in few-mode optical fibres using a spectral-domain white-light interferometric method

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 784-789

  Hlubina, Petr ^a   Martynkien, Tadeusz ^b   Urbańczyk, Waclaw ^b  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY IN OPAVA   (Czech Republic)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cut off wavelength; Equalization wavelength; Intermodal dispersion; Michelson interferometer; Optical fibre; Spectral interference; Weakly guiding approximation; White light source

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; SPECTROMETERS;

OPTICAL PATH DIFFERENCE (OPD);

OPTICAL FIBERS;

MEASUREMENT METHOD;

EID: 0038755307     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/14/6/311     Document Type: Article

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