title: Polarization mode dispersion of spun fibers with randomly varying birefringence.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Via Gradenigo 6/A, 35131 Padova, Italy. annap@wave.dei.unipd.it
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pizzinat
authors.forename: B S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Marks
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Palmieri
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Menyuk
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Galtarossa