Analysis and suppression of nonlinear frequency modulation in an optical frequency-domain reflectometer

Kivilcim Yuksel; Marc Wuilpart; Patrice Mégret

doi:10.1364/oe.17.005845

Analysis and suppression of nonlinear frequency modulation in an optical frequency-domain reflectometer

Opt Express. 2009 Mar 30;17(7):5845-51. doi: 10.1364/oe.17.005845.

Authors

Kivilcim Yuksel¹, Marc Wuilpart, Patrice Mégret

Affiliation

¹ Faculty of Engineering, Mons, Electromagnetism and Telecommunication Department, Mons, Belgium. kivilcim.yuksel@fpms.ac.be

PMID: 19333353
DOI: 10.1364/oe.17.005845

Abstract

A new method for monitoring the nonlinearities perturbing the optical frequency sweep in high speed tunable laser sources is presented. The swept-frequency monitoring system comprises a Mach-Zehnder interferometer and simple signal processing steps. It has been implemented in a coherent optical frequency domain reflectometer which allowed to drastically reduce the effects of nonlinear sweep, resulting to a spatial resolution enhancement of 30 times.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Computer-Aided Design
Equipment Design
Equipment Failure Analysis / instrumentation*
Equipment Failure Analysis / methods
Interferometry / instrumentation*
Lasers*
Nonlinear Dynamics
Photometry / instrumentation*
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity