Measurement of polarization mode dispersion vectors in optical fibers using a virtual Mueller matrix method

Hui Dong; Ping Shum; Yandong Gong; Min Yan; Junqiang Zhou; Chuqin Wu

doi:10.1117/1.2714519

1 March 2007 Measurement of polarization mode dispersion vectors in optical fibers using a virtual Mueller matrix method

Hui Dong, Ping Shum, Yandong Gong, Min Yan, Junqiang Zhou, Chuqin Wu

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 46, Issue 3, 035007 (March 2007). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2714519

Abstract

A virtual Mueller matrix method is proposed to measure the first- and second-order polarization mode dispersion (PMD) vectors in optical fibers. This method not only can use a large frequency step to attain low-noise PMD vector data, but also does not require knowledge of the input polarization states. Our measurement method has a simpler setup and is more accurate than the traditional Mueller matrix method.

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Hui Dong, Ping Shum, Yandong Gong, Min Yan, Junqiang Zhou, and Chuqin Wu "Measurement of polarization mode dispersion vectors in optical fibers using a virtual Mueller matrix method," Optical Engineering 46(3), 035007 (1 March 2007). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2714519

Published: 1 March 2007

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