Polarization dependence of the intensity modulation transfer function of an optical system with PMD and PDL

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1515-1517

  Eyal, Avishay ^a,b   Kuperman, David ^b   Dimenstein, Oscar ^b   Tur, Moshe ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Optical communication; Polarization mode dispersion; Polarization dependent loss; Stokes parameters

Indexed keywords

INTENSITY MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; LINEAR OPTICAL SYSTEM; MULLER MATRIX; POLARIZATION DEPENDENT LOSS; POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION; STOKES PARAMETER;

LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PARAMETRIC DEVICES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036852927     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.803898     Document Type: Article

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