Fiber recirculating delay-line tunable depolarizer

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 443-448

  Shen, Paisheng ^a,b   Palais, Joseph C ^a   Lin, Chinlon ^c,d  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b Alliances Fiber Optic Products   (United States)

^c TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^d TYCO TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CALCULATIONS; LENSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SOURCES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL FIBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

MACH-ZEHNDER FIBER DELAY LINE STRUCTURE; MODE COUPLING THEORY; SINGLE MODE FIBER DEPOLARIZER;

ELECTRIC DELAY LINES;

EID: 0031675561     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.000443     Document Type: Article

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