• DocumentCode
    1266222
  • Title

    Reduction of the degree of polarization of a laser diode with a fiber Lyot depolarizer

  • Author

    Wang, J.S. ; Costelloe, J.R. ; Stolen, R.H.

  • Author_Institution
    AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
  • Volume
    11
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    1999
  • Firstpage
    1449
  • Lastpage
    1451
  • Abstract
    A fiber Lyot depolarizer was used to reduce the degree of polarization (DOP) of a laser pump diode. The typical DOP out of the depolarizer is better than 0.2 which should he sufficient to reduce the effect of pump polarization on erbium fiber amplifiers.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre polarisation; optical pumping; semiconductor lasers; degree of polarization; erbium fiber amplifiers; fiber Lyot depolarizer; laser diode; laser pump diode; pump polarization; Birefringence; Diode lasers; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Pump lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/68.803075
  • Filename
    803075
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1266222