Dispersion measuring device, and dispersion measuring method

Abstract

A dispersion measuring device includes a pulsed laser light source, a pulse forming unit, a correlator, and an arithmetic operation unit. The pulse forming unit forms an optical pulse train from an optical pulse output from the pulsed laser light source. The correlator detects a temporal waveform of correlated light formed from the optical pulse train. The arithmetic operation unit estimates a wavelength dispersion amount of an optical component disposed between the pulsed laser light source and the correlator, based on the temporal waveform of the correlated light. A dispersion medium gives a group delay dispersion to the optical pulse train to increase the peak intensity of the correlated light to be equal to or greater than a threshold value of the correlator. The pulse forming unit gives a group delay dispersion having a sign opposite to the group delay dispersion given to the optical pulse train to the optical pulse.