Measure of spin period in randomly birefringent low-PMD fibers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1131-1133

  Galtarossa, Andrea ^a   Palmieri, Luca ^a   Sarchi, Davide ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Pirelli Labs SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Optical fiber fabrication; Optical fiber measurements; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber testing; Optical time domain reflectometry; Spun fibers

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES; REFLECTOMETERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL FIBER TESTING; OPTICAL TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; RANDOMLY BIREFRINGENT; SPUN FIBER;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EID: 1942532768     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.824661     Document Type: Article

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