Polarisation maintenance in circularly birefringent fibres
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- Author(s): A.J. Barlow 1 ; D.N. Payne 1
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Department of Electronics,
University of Southampton
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Department of Electronics,
University of Southampton
, Southampton
, UK
- Source: Electronics Letters, Volume 17, Issue 11, 28 May 1981, p. 388 – 389, DOI: 10.1049/el:19810272, Print ISSN 0013-5194, Online ISSN 1350-911X
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Abstract
The feasibility of twisted circularly birefringent polarisation maintaining fibres is investigated. It is shown that the twist rate required to provide immunity from external effects is excessively large.
Inspec keywords: optical waveguide theory; optical fibres; birefringence; light polarisation; fibre optics
Other keywords: twisted circularly birefringent polarisation maintaining fibres; twist rate; circular polarisation; immunity from external effects; feasibility study; optical fibres; circularly birefringent fibres; polarisation maintenance
Subjects: Fibre optics; Optical polarization in homogeneous media; Optical propagation and transmission in homogeneous and anisotropic media; birefringence; Waveguide and cavity theory; Fibre optics and fibre waveguides
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