Azami, Nawfel National Institute of Telecommunications, Morocco , El Idrissi, Driss Université Hassan 1er - Faculté des Sciences et Techniques-FST, Morocco , El Idrissi, Driss National Institute of Telecommunications, Morocco , Harmouchi, Mohammed Université Hassan 1er - Faculté des Sciences et Techniques-FST, Morocco , Mouhsen, Azeddine Université Hassan 1er - Faculté des Sciences et Techniques-FST, Morocco , Rattal, Mourad Université Hassan 1er - Faculté des Sciences et Techniques-FST, Morocco , Rahmouni, Anouar Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah - Faculté des Sciences Techniques-FST, Maroc , Rahmouni, Anouar National Institute of Telecommunications, Morocco

Single Polarization Transmission on Polished Panda-Type Polarization Maintaining Optical Fiber

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High polarization dependent loss on polished Polarization Maintaining Panda-type-fiber is reported. We report on these observations and on the analysis of such a phenomena.We believe that the polarization dependent loss is due to the energy transfer of the fundamental mode to higher order modes of the polished fiber part. Depending on the polarization, beating between these modes induces a polarization dependence on the transmission. As an application, we have been able to show experimentally and theoretically extinction ratio of 30 dB with 1 dB of excess loss for the transmitted polarization over 1 cm of polished panda-type fiber.

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Optical fiber , polarization , polarizer , evanescent wave , inline devices

Mediterranean Telecommunications Journal

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