Title :
Linearly birefringent fibres with zero polarisation-mode dispersion
Author :
Chiang, Kin Seng
Author_Institution :
University of New South Wales, School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Kensington, Australia
Abstract :
It is found that in a single-mode optical fibre, if the material anisotropy in the cladding can be made substantially larger than that in the core, the group delays of the two orthogonally polarised modes can be equalised at some particular frequencies. Numerical results are presented for circular and elliptical fibres.
Keywords :
optical dispersion; optical fibres; optical links; optical waveguide theory; polarisation; circular fibres; cladding; elliptical fibres; group delays; linearly birefringent fibres; long distance links; material anisotropy; orthogonally polarised modes; single-mode optical fibre; zero polarisation-mode dispersion;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19850647
