Polarization decorrelation in optical fibers with randomly varying elliptical birefringence

30. Thomas Wanner, Brian S. Marks, Curtis R. Menyuk, John Zweck:
    Polarization decorrelation in optical fibers with randomly varying elliptical birefringence
    Optics Letters 28(19), pp. 1799-1801, 2003.

Abstract

Polarization decorrelation in single-mode fibers with randomly varying elliptical birefringence is studied. It is found that the effects of ellipticity on the polarization decorrelation length depend on the relative sizes of the beat length and the autocorrelation length of the birefringence fluctuations in the fiber. However, the evolution of the differential group delay remains unaffected by ellipticity.

Links

The published version of the paper can be found at https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.28.001799.

Bibtex

@article{wanner:etal:03a,
   author = {Thomas Wanner and Brian S. Marks and Curtis R. Menyuk
             and John Zweck},
   title = {Polarization decorrelation in optical fibers with randomly
            varying elliptical birefringence},
   journal = {Optics Letters},
   year = 2003,
   volume = 28,
   number = 19,
   pages = {1799--1801},
   doi = {10.1364/OL.28.001799}
   }