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NIST Special Publication 953 Technical Digest Symposium on Optical Fiber Measurements, 2000 Digest of a symposium sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology Nisr in cooperation with the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society and the Optical Society of America September 26-28, 2000 National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, Colorado 80303 Edited by OSA P.A. Williams Optical Society of America G- W, Day September 2000 f> 111 U.S. Department of Commerce Norman Y. Mineta, Secretary Technology Administration Dr. Cheryl L. Shavers, Under Secretary ofCommercefor Technology National Institute of Standards and Technology Raymond G. Kammer, Director Certain commercial entities, equipment, or materials may be identified in this document in order to describe an experimental procedure or concept adequately. Such identification is not mtended to imply recommendation or endorsement by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, nor is it intended to imply that the entities, materials, or equipment are necessarily the best available for the purpose. National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 953 Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol. Spec. Publ. 953, 195 pages (September 2000) CODEN: NSPUE2 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 2000 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, DC 20402-9325 Preface This year, SOFM is two decades old. After all these years, fiberoptic metrology is not only still important, but we are seeing a rise in metrology needs for the technologies resulting from fiber optics - components, integrated optics and fiber systems. Accordingly, we are pleased to see a significant number of component measurement papers in this year's Symposium. The majority of this year's papers fall into one of three categories: dispersion, components and nonlinear optics. Dispersion is the largest category, containing two sessions of polarization-mode dispersion, a session of chromatic dispersion and a session for group-delay measurements on fiber Bragg gratings. Component papers include grating metrology as well as receiver and amplifier characterization. Nonlinear measurements fill two sessions with measurements of nonlinear coefficient and effective area. And, with all of this, it is nice to see original work still going on in fibers - we find a full session of papers relating to novel (engineered) fibers. This year we have 44 papers (9 invited and 35 contributed), with strong international participation (slightly more than half originating outside the United States). Happy reading. Paul Williams Gordon Day Boulder, Colorado September 2000 Except where attributed to NIST authors, the content of individual sections of this volume has not been reviewed or edited by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. NIST therefore accepts no responsibility for comments or recommendations therein. The mention of trade names in this volume is in no sense an endorsement or recommendation by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. iii SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE G.W. Day, NISI, General Chair P.A. Williams, NIST, Program Chair M. Artiglia, CSELT A.J. Barlow, PerkinElmer Optoelectronics J. Benson, NPL S.C. Fleming, University of Sydney D.L. Franzen, NIST N. Gisin, University of Geneva M. Hackert, Coming, Inc. T.A. Hanson, Coming, Inc. J. Jackel, Telcordia Technologies H. Nagai, Amitsu W.A. Reed, Lucent Technologies G.W. Schinn, EXFO C. Shaar,GNNettest K.K. Wong, Codeon Corporation iv CONTENTS PREFACE iii SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE iv Characterisation of Photonic Crystal Fibres (invited) T.A. Birks, J.C. Knight, B.J. Mangan, A. Ortigosa-Blanch, P. St.J. Russell, University of Bath 1 Characterization of the Guiding Properties of a Bragg Type Photonic-Band-Gap Fiber P. Roy, F. Brechet, P. Leproux, J. Marcou, D. Pagnoux, Institut de Recherche en Communications Optiques et Microondes 7 Ultra-Broad Supercontinuum Generation in Tapered Telecommunications Fibres T.A. Birks, W.J. Wadsworth, P. St.J. Russell, University of Bath 11 A Simple Servo Controlled Scanning Reflectance Measurement Method for Determining the Refractive Index Profile of a Waveguide Y. Park, N.H. Seong, Y.C. Youk, U.C. Peak, D.Y. Kim, Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology 15 Characterizing the Filter Response of Optical Routers (invited) Chellappan Narayanan, Gail Bogert, Lucent Technologies . 19 Saturated Optogalvanic Transition in Krypton at 1 564 nm David A. Humphreys, National Physical Laboratory 25 Characterization of Multimode Fiber for 10 Gbps Operation (invited) John S. Abbott, Coming, Inc 29 Short Pulse, Small Spot Size, Central Launch in Multimode Fibres: Comparison Between Measurement and Computation M.J.N, van Stralen, Plasma Optical Fibre B.V.; B.P. de Hon, M. Bingle, Eindhoven University of Technology; F.J. Achten, Plasma Optical Fibre B.V. 35 Measurement of the Non-Linear Index of Refraction, Nj (invited) Dan L. Philen, Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories 39 Measurement Conditions of Nonlinear Refractive Index nj for Various Single-Mode Fibers by CW Dual-Frequency Method Kazuhide Nakajima, Takuya Omae, Masaharu Ohashi, NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories 45 V KDD Nonlinear Coefficient Round Robin Measurements for Various Dispersion Shifted Fibers in Japan and UK Yoshinori Namihira, KDD R&D Laboratories, Inc 49 Kerr Coefficient for Chaotic Light in Optical Fiber S.M. Pietralunga, P. Martelli, M. Ferrario, CoreCom; M. Martinelli, Politecnico di Milano 53 Estimation of the Polarization Coupling Length in Standard Telecom Fibers from Measurements of Nonlinear Polarization Rotation C. Vinegoni, M. Wegmiiller, N. Gisin, University of Geneva , 57 A Comparison of Three