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Dispersion Measurements Of Single Mode And Multimode Optical Fibers

W. B. Gardner

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Both time domain and frequency domain techniques have become well established for measuring the bandwidth of multimode optical fibers. The bandwidth of single mode fibers is much more source-dependent, however, and hence dispersion (or the zero dispersion wavelength) is used instead to characterize the information capacity. Dispersion can be determined by measuring pulse delay, phase shift, or fringe visibility as a function of wavelength.

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Key concepts: Modal dispersion, Multi-mode optical fiber, Zero-dispersion wavelength, Optics, Dispersion (optics), Single-mode optical fiber, Bandwidth (computing), Polarization mode dispersion