Le. Nelson et al., Measurement of polarization mode dispersion vectors using the polarization-dependent signal delay method, OPT EXPRESS, 6(8), 2000, pp. 158-167
We describe a new time-domain method for determining the vector components
of polarization-mode dispersion from measurements of the mean signal delays
for four polarization launches. Using sinusoidal amplitude modulation and
sensitive phase detection, we demonstrate that the PMD vector components me
asured with the new method agree with results obtained from the more tradit
ional Muller Matrix Method. (C) 2000 Optical Society of America.