Analytical treatment of randomly birefringent periodically spun fibers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3355-3363

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Baltimore County   (United States)

^c LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REFLECTOMETERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BIREFRINGENCE CORRELATION LENGTH; DIFFERENTIAL GROUP DELAY; FIBER BIREFRINGES; OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION; SPUN FIBERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 4544283732     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.821723     Document Type: Article

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