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Reflectometric measurement of birefringence rotation in single-mode optical fibers
Andrea Galtarossa1, Daniele Grosso, Luca Palmieri
1Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Optics Letters
|October 17, 2008
Abstract:
We present a novel reflectometric technique for the measurement of orientation and modulus of the linear birefringence vector in single-mode optical fibers. The technique provides information also on circular birefringence, although this component, if present, appears as a rotation of the linear birefringence. A detailed theoretical analysis is reported and validated by experimental results.
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