title: Polarization-mode dispersion measurement by an optical time-domain reflectometer with polarimetry assuming backscattering by randomly oriented nonspherical particles.
abstract: In previous work on polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) measurement with an optical time-domain reflectometer with polarimetry (p-OTDR), scatterers were assumed to be a cloud of small spherical particles in a fiber. We have found that the p-OTDR waveforms were fitted well by modified Mueller matrices, assuming scattering by a cloud of nonspherical particles. We realized a PMD measurement based on the p-OTDR Jones matrix eigenanalysis (JME) method. The measured PMD was consistent with that of JME standard measurement with transmission-type polarimetry.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sophia University, Tokyo 102-8554, Japan. t-ozeki@gentei.ee.sophia.ac.jp
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authors.lastname: Ozeki
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authors.lastname: Kobayashi
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authors.lastname: Nakayama
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authors.lastname: Iwasaki
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authors.lastname: Sakamoto