Polarization Optics in Telecommunications

✍ Scribed by Jay N. Damask (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 534
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences 101
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The strong investments into optical telecommunications in the late 1990s

resulted in a wealth of new research, techniques, component designs, and

understanding of polarization effects in fiber. Polarization Optics in

Telecommunications brings together recent advances in the field to create a

standard, practical reference for component designers and optical fiber

communication engineers. Beginning with a sound foundation in

electromagnetism, the author offers a dissertation of the spin-vector

formalism of polarization and the interaction of light with media.

Applications discussed include optical isolators, optical circulators,

fiber collimators, and a variety of applied waveplate and prism

combinations. Also included in an extended discussion of polarization-mode

dispersion (PMD) and polarization-dependent loss (PDL), their

representation, behavior, statistical properties, and measurement. This

book draws extensively from the technical and patent literature and is an

up-to-date reference for researchers and component designers in industry

and academia.

✦ Table of Contents

Vectorial Propagation of Light....Pages 1-36
The Spin-Vector Calculus of Polarization....Pages 37-78
Interaction of Light and Dielectric Media....Pages 79-142
Elements and Basic Combinations....Pages 143-210
Collimator Technologies....Pages 211-246
Isolators....Pages 247-272
Circulators....Pages 273-296
Properties of Polarization-Dependent Loss and Polarization-Mode Dispersion....Pages 297-384
Statistical Properties of Polarization in Fiber....Pages 385-428
Review of Polarization Test and Measurement....Pages 429-490

✦ Subjects

Laser Technology and Physics, Photonics; Applied Optics, Optoelectronics, Optical Devices; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering