Self-referenced and single-ended method to measure Brillouin gain in monomode optical fibers.
We present a new self-referenced and single-ended method to measure the Brillouin-gain coefficient in monomode optical fibers accurately with high reliability. Our comparative measurements on several different fibers show that a fiber with a smaller optical effective mode area can nevertheless have a higher Brillouin threshold, thus confirming the significance of acousto-optic effective mode area.
Lanticq
Vincent
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Electricité de France R&D, Chatou, France. vincent.lanticq@telecom-paristech.fr
Jiang
Shifeng
S
Gabet
Renaud
R
Jaouën
Yves
Y
Taillade
Frédéric
F
Moreau
Gautier
G
Agrawal
Govind P
GP