New fiber-optic depolarizer |
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| Authors: | Takada K. Okamoto K. Noda J. |
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| Affiliation: | NTT Corporation, Tokai, Ibari-ken, Japan; |
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| Abstract: | A new type of single mode fiber-optic depolarizer is proposed and demonstrated. The new depolarizer consists of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with one arm used as a delay line with respect to the other. Light having a 100-MHz spectral width, for example, can be depolarized with high coupling efficiency to single mode fibers by using a polarization-maintaining fiber-delay line of a few meters in length. |
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