Title :
An all optically controlled polarizer
Author :
Moses, B. ; Wai, P.K.A. ; Chan, L.Y. ; Tam, H.Y.
Author_Institution :
Photonics Res. Centre, Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., Hung Hom, China
Abstract :
An all-optical polarizer was demonstrated using a mutual-injection locking laser diode. Experimental results show that the proposed all-optical polarizer can re-polarize a polarization-scrambled 10 Gbps signal without state-of-polarization characterization and feedback control. The region on the Poincare sphere at which the proposed polarizer does not re-polarize the signal is investigated.
Keywords :
Fabry-Perot resonators; Poincare mapping; laser mode locking; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical polarisers; semiconductor lasers; 10 Gbit/s; Poincare sphere; all optically controlled polarizer; mutual-injection locking laser diode; polarization-scrambled signal; re-polarization; Diode lasers; Feedback control; Optical control; Optical devices; Optical feedback; Optical fiber polarization; Optical network units; Optical polarization; Optical sensors; Tellurium;
Conference_Titel :
Optoelectronics, Proceedings of the Sixth Chinese Symposium
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7887-3
DOI :
10.1109/COS.2003.1278196
