• DocumentCode
    772066
  • Title

    Control of polarisation degradation in fibre amplifier WDMs

  • Author

    O´Sullivan, N.M. ; Birks, T.A. ; Hussey, C.D.

  • Author_Institution
    Limerick Univ., Ireland
  • Volume
    28
  • Issue
    17
  • fYear
    1992
  • Firstpage
    1616
  • Lastpage
    1618
  • Abstract
    Polarisation degradation of the crosstalk isolation of 1480/1550 singlemode WDMs can be controlled by increasing the width of the tapered coupler waist. The technique is simple and does not involve any disturbance of the WDM channel wavelengths after coupler fabrication.
  • Keywords
    crosstalk; fibre lasers; frequency division multiplexing; light polarisation; optical couplers; crosstalk isolation; fibre amplifier WDMs; polarisation degradation; singlemode WDMs; tapered coupler waist;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19921028
  • Filename
    156286
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=772066