Distributed sensing of polarization mode coupling in high birefringence optical fibers using intense arbitrarily polarized coherent light

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 794-801

  Zhang, Jian ^b,d,e,f   Handerek, Vincent A ^b,g,h,i   Çokgör, Ilkan ^c   Pantelic, Vladimir ^b   Rogers, Alan J ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Call Recall Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^e BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^f BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h NORTEL NETWORKS   (Canada)

ⁱ Andrew Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Distributed detection; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber measurement; Optical fiber polarization

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COHERENT LIGHT; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTODETECTORS;

OPTICAL FIBER MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL FIBER POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION DIVERSITY DETECTION SYSTEM;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0031139231     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.580817     Document Type: Article

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