Principal states of polarization for an optical pulse

Author

Shieh, William

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol., AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

11

Issue

6

fYear

1999

fDate

6/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

677

Lastpage

679

Abstract

We propose a generalized definition of principal states of polarization for an optical pulse with arbitrary spectral components. Similar to the principal states defined by Poole et al. (see Electron. Lett. vol. 22, p. 1029, 1986) we show that regardless of the spectral components of the pulse, there exist two orthogonal input states of polarization which minimize/maximize the delay of the pulse. At the output of the fiber, these two principal states of the pulse, although depolarized, are also always orthogonal to each other.

Keywords

compensation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre theory; arbitrary spectral components; depolarized; fibre output; generalized definition; optical fibre polarisation dispersion; optical pulse; orthogonal; orthogonal input states; principal states of polarization; pulse delay; spectral components; Degradation; Delay; Fourier transforms; Optical distortion; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; Optical pulses; Polarization mode dispersion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.766782

Filename

766782