Anisotropic diffusion of the state of polarization in optical fibers with randomly varying birefringence

Optics Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 1995, Pages 2493-2495

  Wai, P K A ^a   Menyuk, C R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; WHITE NOISE;

BEAT LENGTH; DIFFUSION LENGTH; FIBER AUTOCORRELATION LENGTH; LANGEVIN EQUATIONS; POINCARE SPHERE; STOKES PARAMETER;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0029540527     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.20.002493     Document Type: Article

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