Electro-optical polarisation control on single-mode optical fibres

Mitsuru Kubota, T. Oohara, K. Furuya, Y. Suematsu

Electronics Letters · 1980 · 51 citations · 3 references

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Abstract

The polarisation of the output light of a single-mode optical fibre was controlled and stabilised by an electro-optical feedback system consisting of two LiNbO3 crystals and voltage controllers. Using this system, polarisation mismatching loss was reduced to 0.2 dB.

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