2. Commercial polarization control devices for fiber optics
After a brief reminder of how polarization states are represented on the Poincaré sphere, this section describes the main existing and commercially available devices for controlling or stabilizing the polarization state of a laser wave in fiber optics.
2.1 Representation of polarization on the Poincaré sphere
In this article, wave polarizations will often be represented on the Poincaré sphere (figure 1 ). In this representation system, which is widely used in practice, each point on the sphere corresponds to a particular polarization state. The...
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Commercial polarization control devices for fiber optics
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Bibliography
Websites
Solitons, lasers and optical communications team https://icb.u-bourgogne.fr/safir/
Research program on self-polarizing light phenomena https://www.facebook.com/petal.inside?fref=ts
Patents
PITOIS (S.) and FATOME (J.). – All-optical polarization control system with contra-propagating pump beam. N° FR 2010/051826
PITOIS (S.), FATOME (J.), MORIN (P.) and MILLOT (G.). – Method and device for controlling a physical parameter of an optical signal. N° FR 11/02472
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