Performance of Lyot depolarizers with birefringent single-mode fibers
Authors:
- K. PetermannKPK. Petermann
- E. WeidelEWE. Weidel
- 1 March 1983
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Journal of Lightwave Technology
- Vol. 1 (1) , 71-74
Abstract
Fiber-optic Lyot depolarizers which are attractive for fiber-optic gyros have been studied theoretically and experimentally. It is shown that the amount of residual polarization at the depolarizer output is proportional to the square root of the polarization-maintaining parameterh, yielding a residual polarization of about 1 percent for a fiber-optic depolarizer withh = 1.1 \cdot 10^{-4}/m and a superluminescent diode.Keywords
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