An analytical formula for the mean differential group delay of randomly birefringent spun fibers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1635-1643

  Galtarossa, Andrea ^a   Palmieri, Luca ^a   Pizzinat, Anna ^a,b   Marks, Brian S ^b,c   Menyuk, Curtis R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Baltimore County   (United States)

^c LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; DISPERSION (WAVES); DRAWING (FORMING); LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

MEAN DIFFERENTIAL GROUP DELAY; POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION; RANDOM MODULUS MODEL; SPUN FIBERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0042387827     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.814385     Document Type: Article

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