Abstract

Measurements of birefringence correlation length performed on long single-mode telecommunication fibers are reported. The proposed technique relies on the statistical properties of the backscattered-field polarization, which was measured by means of a polarization-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometer. Experimental results are reported that show good agreement with the underlying theory based on stochastic differential equations.

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Measurements of beat length and perturbation length in long single-mode fibers

Andrea Galtarossa, Luca Palmieri, Marco Schiano, and Tiziana Tambosso
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Statistics of the Jones matrix of fibers affected by polarization mode dispersion

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Polarization mode dispersion properties of constantly spun randomly birefringent fibers

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