High-resolution measurement of polarization dependent loss

1 July 1993

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Vol. 5 (7) , 817-818
https://doi.org/10.1109/68.229817

Abstract

Polarization-dependent loss (PDL) is the dependence of insertion loss on the state of polarization (SOP) of the input light. Previous efforts to measure PDL of components had an uncertainty of more than 0.01 dB, primarily due to the PDL of the measurement equipment itself. A method that uses an erbium-doped-fiber depolarizer, resulting in a test set with an uncertainty of+or-0.001 dB, is presented.

Keywords

LOSS MEASUREMENT
OPTICAL FIBER POLARIZATION
PAGE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES
POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION
OPTICAL FIBER DEVICES
ERBIUM
DETECTORS
OPTIMIZED PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY
TESTING
OPTICAL POLARIZATION

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