Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9785906 | Optics Communications | 2005 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
We propose a periodic random polarization scrambling scheme that can generate uniformly distributed output states of polarization (SOPs) on the Poincarè sphere for any arbitrary input polarization state. This approach is compared with previous methods using computer simulations, as well as an experimental measurement consisting of 1000 samples that confirms the uniformity of output SOPs.
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Authors
Lian-shan Yan, Qian Yu, Alan E. Willner,