Measure of twist-induced circular birefringence in long single-mode fibers: Theory and experiments

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1149-1159

  Galtarossa, Andrea ^a,b   Palmieri, Luca ^c  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beat length; Birefringence correlation length; Circular birefringence; Fiber birefringence; Polarization mode dispersion (PMD)

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTION; CIRCULAR BIREFRINGENCE; FIBER BIREFRINGENCE; POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION; POLARIZATION-SENSITIVE OPTICAL TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; SINGLE-MODE TWISTED FIBER;

BIREFRINGENCE; CORRELATION METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0036631040     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2002.800338     Document Type: Article

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