Mode-power fluctuations in optical fibers
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Rapid Repetition Rate Fluctuation Measurement of Soliton Crystals in a Microresonator
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Optics Letters
|September 2, 2009
Abstract:
The influence of the relative values of mutual modal delay, source coherence time, and signal modulation time on the power fluctuations between the two polarization states of a single-mode optical fiber is investigated.
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