Operator expansions for polarization mode dispersion analysis and compensation.
We present analytic third- and fourth-order expansions of the Jones matrix as products of exponentials of individual matrices. In our first formalism, these are polarization mode dispersion (PMD) matrices of definite orders. We then discuss an alternative procedure that instead employs exponentials of general skew-Hermitian matrices with a low-order dependence on the deviation of the optical frequency from a central reference frequency. Our expressions correspond to PMD compensators formed from a succession of relatively simple optical components each of which has the frequency response of a single operator in the product.
Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada. yevick@uwaterloo.ca
David O
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Yevick
Tao
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Lu
Weihong
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Huang
Witold
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Bardyszewski