Measurement of the elliptical birefringence of single-mode optical fibers

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 30, 2001, Pages 5343-5353

  Chartier, Thierry ^a   Hideur, Ammar ^a   Özkul, Cafer ^a   Sanchez, François ^b   Stéphan, Guy M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

^c École Nationale Supé rieure de Sciences Appliqué es et de Technologie   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; VECTORS;

JONES MATRIX;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EID: 0005622504     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.005343     Document Type: Article

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