DocumentCode
1032634
Title
Polarisation-insensitive heterodyne detection using polarisation scrambling
Author
Hodgkinson, T.G. ; Harmon, R.A. ; Smith, D.W.
Author_Institution
British Telecom Research Laboratories, Ipswich, UK
Volume
23
Issue
10
fYear
1987
Firstpage
513
Lastpage
514
Abstract
Theoretical and experimental results are presented which demonstrate that polarisation diversity can be implemented by rapidly stepping the polarisation of an optical signal between orthogonal states prior to transmission through a birefringent medium.
Keywords
light polarisation; optical communication; optical fibres; birefringent medium; optical fibre communication; optical signal; orthogonal states; polarisation diversity; polarisation scrambling; polarisation-insensitive heterodyne detection;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:19870371
Filename
4257702
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