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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 1985
Filed:
Aug. 08, 1983
Northern Telecom Limited, Montreal, CA;
Abstract
The chromatic dispersion of an optical fiber such as a 10 to 50 km length of single mode fiber is measured by launching into the fiber the outputs of at least three commonly modulated semiconductor lasers having output wavelengths close to a region of minimum chromatic dispersion of the fiber. At a remote end of the fiber the relative phases of the signals from the three lasers are determined and a chromatic dispersion profile of the fiber is derived from the measured relative phases and the output wavelenghts of the lasers by assuming a parabolic relationship between signal propagation times and wavelength. The profile can be determined by defferentiating a parabolic function fitted to the three date points derived using said three lasers or by directly generating a linear relationship between chromatic dispersion and wavelength on the basis of two values of chromatic dispersion derived from these three data points.