Title :
Passive fibre depolariser based on incoherent cascaded fibre-rings
Author :
Shen, Benson Paisheng ; Lin, Chinlon
Author_Institution :
Alliance Fiber Optics Products Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA
fDate :
9/3/1998 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A new singlemode fibre depolariser has been demonstrated using cascaded 2×2 couplers. The experimental results show that this depolariser can eliminate the polarisation noise in a polarisation-sensitive fibre system and is insensitive to the input polarisation state
Keywords :
optical fibre couplers; optical fibre polarisation; optical noise; optical polarisers; cascaded couplers; incoherent cascaded fibre rings; passive fibre depolariser; polarisation noise; polarisation-sensitive fibre;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19981224
