Polarization stabilization on single-mode fiber

1 December 1979

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters

Vol. 35 (11), 840-842
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.90999

Abstract

The state of polarization at the output end of a long nominally circular single‐mode optical fiber is stabilized by an active control system. It contains a polarimeter and two electromagnetic fiber squeezers which introduce variable amounts of stress birefringence directly into the fiber, compensating for the effects of changing intrinsic fiber birefringence.

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