POLARIZATION EVOLUTION AND DISPERSION IN FIBERS WITH SPATIALLY VARYING BIREFRINGENCE

Authors
MENYUK CR WAI PKA
Citation
Cr. Menyuk et Pka. Wai, POLARIZATION EVOLUTION AND DISPERSION IN FIBERS WITH SPATIALLY VARYING BIREFRINGENCE, Journal of the Optical Society of America. B, Optical physics, 11(7), 1994, pp. 1288-1296
Citations number
52
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Journal of the Optical Society of America. B, Optical physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
07403224
Volume
11
Issue
7
Year of publication
1994
Pages
1288 - 1296
Database
ISI
SICI code
0740-3224(1994)11:7<1288:PEADIF>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
A procedure is described that allows one to solve the evolution equati ons in birefringent optical fibers by using repeated diagonalization. With this approach several practical problems are solved in a unified way. Included are evolution in twisted fibers, sinusoidally rocked fib ers, and fibers with randomly varying birefringence. In the last case it is shown that a phenomenological model described by Poole and other s applies to fibers whose axes of birefringence can take on any orient ation.