IEEE Photonics Technology Letters · 1993 · 17 citations · 3 references
EngineeringElectrical EngineeringPhysicsOpticsPhotonicsSensorsFiber OpticsOptical FibersPolarization OpticsDepolarizationFiber CouplersFiber-optic SensorsOptical CouplersPolarizationPolarization Maintaining FibersPolarization PropertiesRecursive Structure
A passive fiber-optic depolarizer for avoiding noise due to input polarization fluctuations in polarization-sensitive optical sensors is described. It consists of a 2*2 polarization-maintaining coupler (with a coupling ratio of >2/3) having two fiber leads spliced together with their respective fast axes crossed, forming a recursive loop structure. Essentially complete depolarization was experimentally demonstrated. This approach requires no active elements and is applicable even to extremely narrow bandwidth laser sources.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
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Single-mode fibre fractional wave devices and polarisation controllers
H. C. Lefèvre · Electronics Letters · 1980 · 465 citations
Engineering, Physics, Optics +16
Depolarized source for fiber-optic applications
W. K. Burns, R. P. Moeller, C. H. Bulmer et al. · Optics Letters · 1991 · 29 citations