Polarization mode dispersion of spun fibers with randomly varying birefringence.
We show analytically how periodic spinning affects the polarization mode dispersion of a fiber in three different practical regimes that are determined by the values of three length scales: the beat length, the birefringence correlation length, and the spin period. We determine in which limits the spin is effective in reducing the mean differential group delay.
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Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Via Gradenigo 6/A, 35131 Padova, Italy. annap@wave.dei.unipd.it
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