Distributed Measurement of Polarization Mode Coupling in Polarization Maintaining Fibers Using Microwave Photonic Filter Technique
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DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2018.2829836
Abstract: Polarization mode coupling (PMC) is a detrimental effect that limits the polarization maintaining performance of polarization maintaining fibers (PMF). In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a novel method based on a principle similar to… read more here.
Keywords: maintaining fibers; mode coupling; polarization; microwave photonic ... See more keywords
Low-power (mW) nonlinearities of polarization maintaining fibers
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DOI: 10.1364/prj.7.001386
Abstract: Polarization maintaining (PM) fibers are meant to maintain linear polarization along a preferred axis. A PM fiber can be seen as the fiber version of a very high order waveplate, designed with different refractive indices… read more here.
Keywords: maintaining fibers; power nonlinearities; power; low power ... See more keywords