Digest of the Symposium on Optical Fiber Measurements sponsored by NIST and the IEEE. Includes 44 papers, with strong international participation. The majority of papers are on dispersion, components and nonlinear optics. Dispersion is the largest category, containing 2 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 2 sessions with measurements of nonlinear coefficient and effective area. A full session of papers relates to novel (engineered) fibers).

Digest of a Symposium sponsored by the Nat. Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in cooperation with the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Soc. and the Optical Soc. of Amer. The Symposium consists of 10 invited and 34 contributed papers. Recent events have brought multimode fiber issues back into the measurement arena. Polarization-mode dispersion continues to be a topic of much interest with 2 full sessions devoted to a variety of subtopics in the field. Fiber geometry has several contributions, as does the broad topic of fiber mapping with length (including such parameters as chromatic dispersion and polarization properties).