Abstract
For coherent systems with standard transmission fiber, a receiver insensitive to the state of polarization (SOP) is crucial. The balanced polarization-diversity receiver is such a receiver.1,2 We present a new all-fiber device as the optical front end of this type of receiver.
© 1991 Optical Society of America
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