title: High-resolution differential mode delay measurement for a multimode optical fiber using a modified optical frequency domain reflectometer.
abstract: A novel differential mode delay (DMD) measurement technique for a multimode optical fiber based on optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR) has been proposed. We have obtained a high-resolution DMD value of 0.054 ps/m for a commercial multimode optical fiber with length of 50 m by using a modified OFDR in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer structure with a tunable external cavity laser and a Mach-Zehnder interferometer instead of Michelson interferometer. We have also compared the OFDR measurement results with those obtained using a traditional time-domain measurement method. DMD resolution with our proposed OFDR technique is more than an order of magnitude better than a result obtainable with a conventional time-domain method.
authors.forename: T-J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Ahn
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kim