Title :
Principal states of polarisation: time domain measurements with coherent optical pulse
Author :
Aso, O. ; Nakamura, H.
Author_Institution :
Furukawa Electr. Co. Ltd., Chiba, Japan
fDate :
3/14/1996 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The phenomenon of pulse splitting owing to fibre birefringence with polarisation mode coupling is studied experimentally. It is found that a sufficiently coherent optical pulse is split into two in spite of the effect of polarisation mode coupling. It is also confirmed experimentally that the pulse splitting is described by the principal states of polarisation
Keywords :
birefringence; light coherence; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; time-domain analysis; coherent optical pulse; fibre birefringence; optical fibre polarisation; polarisation mode coupling; principal states of polarisation; pulse splitting; states of polarisation; time domain measurements;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19960329
