摘要 |
An apparatus for measuring coherent crosstalk (CXT) light of the invention generates in a light source section, measurement light which has been modulated to a sawtooth wave shape and applies this to an object of measurement; sends transmission light and CXT light emerging from the object of measurement to a light receiving section via a variable optical attenuator; applies an electrical signal photoelectric-converted in an optical receiver, to a frequency filter, to thereby extract a beat component corresponding to a frequency difference between the transmission light and CXT light; controls the modulation period of the measurement light so that the power of the beat component becomes a local maximum; varies an optical attenuation amount of a variable optical attenuator, while keeping constant the optimized modulation period; and measures with high accuracy the amount of CXT light generated in the object of measurement, based on a rate of variation in the power of the beat component caused at that time.
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