Ma. Santoro et Cd. Poole, POLARIZATION SCRAMBLING USING A SHORT PIECE OF HIGH-BIREFRINGENCE OPTICAL-FIBER AND A MULTIFREQUENCY LASER-DIODE, Journal of lightwave technology, 12(2), 1994, pp. 288-293
This paper describes a technique for avoiding system performance degra
dation and outages in an optical fiber system due to state of polariza
tion mismatch between signal and polarization-sensitive system compone
nts. The technique uses a short piece of high-birefringence fiber and
a multifrequency laser to create a depolarized source that can be used
to transmit data without fading.