Measurement of polarization mode dispersion vectors using the polarization-dependent signal delay method

Optics Express

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 158-167

  Nelson, Lynn E ^a   Jopson, Robert M ^a   Kogelnik, Herwig ^a   Gordon, James P ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BIREFRINGENCE; DISPERSION (WAVES); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL FIBERS;

POLARIZATION-MODE DISPERSION (PMD) METHOD; PULSE DISTORTION; SIGNAL DELAYS; TRANSMISSION PATHS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0000396719     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.6.000158     Document Type: Article

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