• DocumentCode
    1032634
  • Title

    Polarisation-insensitive heterodyne detection using polarisation scrambling

  • Author

    Hodgkinson, T.G. ; Harmon, R.A. ; Smith, D.W.

  • Author_Institution
    British Telecom Research Laboratories, Ipswich, UK
  • Volume
    23
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    1987
  • Firstpage
    513
  • Lastpage
    514
  • Abstract
    Theoretical and experimental results are presented which demonstrate that polarisation diversity can be implemented by rapidly stepping the polarisation of an optical signal between orthogonal states prior to transmission through a birefringent medium.
  • Keywords
    light polarisation; optical communication; optical fibres; birefringent medium; optical fibre communication; optical signal; orthogonal states; polarisation diversity; polarisation scrambling; polarisation-insensitive heterodyne detection;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19870371
  • Filename
    4257702
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1032634