Measurement of distributions of differential group delay in a recirculating loop with and without loop-synchronous scrambling

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1691-1693

  Xu, Hai ^a   Jiao, Hua ^a   Yan, Li ^a   Carter, Gary M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL GROUP DELAY; JONES MATRIX EIGENANALYSIS; OPTICAL FIBER MEASUREMENT; POINCARE ARC METHOD; POLARIZATION DEPENDENT LOSS; POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION; RECIRCULATING LOOP; STOKES NOISE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLARIMETERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 4344648269     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.829523     Document Type: Article

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