Design and Implementation of a Tunable Optical Delay System

Abstract:

This paper presents the design and implementation of a tunable optical delay system, capable of calibrating the optical signal delay by optical measuring instruments. It is also able to measure the delay by optical communication systems, the laser linewidth, the maximum radius of passive optical networks (PONs) and so on. Structure and implementation method are detailed and results show that it is able to measure the optical signal delay within an error of only +/-0.33ns.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 718-720)
• Pages: 698-702
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.718-720.698
• Online since: July 2013
• Authors: Min Zhang, Peng Fu, Nan Xu, Jie Luo, Zhuo Liu, Yue Ying Zhan, Zhi Guo Zhang
• Keywords: Calibration of Optical Signal Delay, Laser Linewidth, Optical Measuring Instruments, Tunable Optical Delay System

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