Polarization-independent depolarizers for highly coherent light using faraday rotator mirrors

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 900-905

  Yamashita, Shinji ^a,b,d,e   Hotate, Kazuo ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e Institute of Electronics   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coherence; Faraday rotator mirror; Optical depolarizers

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

FARADAY ROTATOR MIRRORS; OPTICAL DEPOLARIZER; POLARIZATION SPLITTING MICHELSON INTERFEROMETERS;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 0031142072     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.580834     Document Type: Article

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