Highly accurate long-span chromatic dispersion measurement system by a new phase-shift technique

A highly accurate long span chromatic dispersion measurement system, which is based on a wavelength-division-multiplexing phase-shift technique and utilizes six laser diodes in1.2 \sim 1.6 \mum spectral region, has been developed. It is intrinsically free from error due to the fiber length variation caused by temperature changes under the measurement. The measurement accuracies of dispersion and Zero-dispersion wavelength are extremely good and within ±0.02 ps/km . nm and ±0.1 nm in 1250 ∼ 1450 nm spectral region in the case of a 10.5-km single-mode fiber measurement. The dynamic range is over 50 dB excluding system theS/Nmargin of 5 dB. Using this system, chromatic dispersion measurements of a 101.9-km pure-silica-core single-mode fiber and a 100.7 km concatenated dispersion-shifted single-mode fiber have been successfully carried out. The measured result has coincided with the arithmetical mean of those of constituent fibers.