• DocumentCode
    2697182
  • Title

    An all optically controlled polarizer

  • Author

    Moses, B. ; Wai, P.K.A. ; Chan, L.Y. ; Tam, H.Y.

  • Author_Institution
    Photonics Res. Centre, Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., Hung Hom, China
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    12-14 Sept. 2003
  • Firstpage
    178
  • Lastpage
    181
  • Abstract
    An all-optical polarizer was demonstrated using a mutual-injection locking laser diode. Experimental results show that the proposed all-optical polarizer can re-polarize a polarization-scrambled 10 Gbps signal without state-of-polarization characterization and feedback control. The region on the Poincare sphere at which the proposed polarizer does not re-polarize the signal is investigated.
  • Keywords
    Fabry-Perot resonators; Poincare mapping; laser mode locking; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical polarisers; semiconductor lasers; 10 Gbit/s; Poincare sphere; all optically controlled polarizer; mutual-injection locking laser diode; polarization-scrambled signal; re-polarization; Diode lasers; Feedback control; Optical control; Optical devices; Optical feedback; Optical fiber polarization; Optical network units; Optical polarization; Optical sensors; Tellurium;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optoelectronics, Proceedings of the Sixth Chinese Symposium
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7887-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/COS.2003.1278196
  • Filename
    1278196