Technical Digest, Symposium on Optical Fiber Measurements, 2002

摘要

This year has been a challenging one for the optical fiber telecommunications industry. In spite of that, the 12th Symposium on Optical Fiber Measurements has seen a significant increase in the number of submitted papers. This year, we are bulging at the seams, having accepted 51 papers (9 invited and 42 contributed). The international participation in SOFM remains strong with a little more than half of the papers originating outside the United States. Topically, the papers are more diverse than usual. Except for polarization-mode dispersion, which fills three sessions this year, there is a fairly even distribution across the measurement subjects of nonlinear behavior, fiber and waveguide geometry, group delay, dispersion, wavelength, polarization, multimode fiber, and systems modeling.