Title :
Faraday Effect in Long Telecom Fibers with Randomly Varying Birefringence
Author :
Brodsky, Misha ; Sirenko, A.A. ; Zavriyev, A. ; Trifonov, A.
Author_Institution :
AT&T Labs Research, Middletown, NJ 07748, brodsky@research.att.com
Abstract :
We measure relative propagation delay between two orthogonally polarized pulses in long fibers in the presence of a weak axial magnetic field (~50μT). We find that the fiber birefringence modifies the Faraday polarization eigenstates, which became noncircular and wander in time.
Keywords :
Birefringence; Delay; Faraday effect; Magnetic field measurement; Mirrors; Optical feedback; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Pulse measurements; Telecommunications;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-803-9
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2006.216042
