Statistical prediction and experimental verification of concatenations of fiber optic components with polarization dependent loss

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 332-339

  El Amari, A ^b   Gisin, Nicolas ^b,d,e,f   Perny, Beat ^c,d,g   Zbinden, H ^b   Zimmer, Christian W ^a,c,h,i  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c Swisscom AG   (Switzerland)

^d University of Geneva ^*

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^f Optics Section

^g UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^h ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ R and D Department of Swisscom ^*

Author keywords

Optical fiber measurements; Optical fiber polarization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

POLARIZATION DEPENDENT LOSS (PDL); POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION (PMD);

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0032021513     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.661358     Document Type: Article

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