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
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;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19870371
