Few-Mode Fiber Characterization System Based on the Spatially and Spectrally Imaging Technique

Sensors

Changyuan Yu¹  Jianxun Yu¹  Fengze Tan² 

[1] Photonics Research Centre, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China;The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen 518057, China;

关键词: few-mode fiber;    mode dispersion;    mode coupling;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s22051809

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

With the widespread use of few-mode fibers, mode characteristics testing becomes essential. In this paper, current few-mode fiber testing techniques are discussed, and the S² imaging technique is chosen and demonstrated to be capable of few-mode fiber characterization in principle. As a result, the few-mode fiber characterization system with the S² imaging technique is built and used to obtain accurate mode dispersion of two-mode fibers (a commonly used few-mode fiber) of different lengths. Then, various filters are applied to extract the fundamental and high-order modes to acquire mode coupling components (discrete and distributed mode coupling). The proposed system spectrally characterizes the few-mode fiber by resolving the interference information from the superimposed optical field spatially and has a simple structure and easy operation, which will provide parameter guidance for FMF designing and the FMF sensing experiment optimizing.

【 授权许可】

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