Title :
Periodic Polarization Scrambling with Uniformly Distributed SOPs on the Poincar è Sphere
Author :
Yan, L-S. ; Yu, Qian ; Willner, A.E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electrical Engineering-Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA, Tel: 001-213-740-1488, Fax: 001-213-740-8729, E-Mail: lianshay@usc.edu
Abstract :
A novel periodic random polarization scrambling scheme that can generate uniformly distributed output SOPs on the Poincarè sphere for any arbitrary input state is proposed and compared with previous approaches. Experimental measurement consisting of 200 samples confirms the uniformity.
Keywords :
Bandwidth; Instruments; Monitoring; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical losses; Optical polarization; Page description languages; Polarization mode dispersion; Voltage control;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2002. ECOC 2002. 28th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Copenhagen
Print_ISBN :
87-90974-63-8
