A compound high-order polarization-independent birefringence filter using sagnac interferometers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 458-460

  Fang, Xiaojun ^a,b   Ji, Helin ^b   Allen, Christopher T ^a,b   Demarest, Kenneth ^a,b   Pelz, Lawrence ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c US Sprint   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical fibers; Polarization

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL FIBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

SAGNAC INTERFEROMETERS; SOLC-SAGNAC FILTER;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0031123915     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.559387     Document Type: Article

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