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Polarization mode dispersion of spun fibers with randomly varying birefringence
A Pizzinat1, B S Marks, L Palmieri
1Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Via Gradenigo 6/A, 35131 Padova, Italy. annap@wave.dei.unipd.it
Optics Letters
|March 28, 2003
Abstract:
We show analytically how periodic spinning affects the polarization mode dispersion of a fiber in three different practical regimes that are determined by the values of three length scales: the beat length, the birefringence correlation length, and the spin period. We determine in which limits the spin is effective in reducing the mean differential group delay.