Development of a high precision interferometric set-up for the measurement of polarization mode dispersion

— The measurements of different parameters remained always a prime feature of the practical development of any accurate system. In connection with the optical communication, Phenomenon of PMD in single mode optical fibers takes place due to enormous polarization cross couplings throughout a specific length of the fiber and becomes a deteriorating factor for high speed fiber optic networks. We have quantified the benefits of applying different polarization mode dispersion measuring schemes, which leads to the ultimate outcome of the system refinement. A precise optical test set-up is developed in lab, which provides the exact picture of the state of polarization through a certain fiber length. The set-up is used to measure PMD for single mode and hi-bi specialty fibers, thus making the set-up useful for both telecom and sensor applications of optical fibers. Keywords-component; (PMD, high speed optical networks)