Measurement of the complex polarization mode dispersion vector using Jones matrix analysis

Trung Do; Hui Dong; Ping Shum

doi:10.1364/ao.46.000916

Measurement of the complex polarization mode dispersion vector using Jones matrix analysis

Appl Opt. 2007 Feb 20;46(6):916-21. doi: 10.1364/ao.46.000916.

Authors

Trung Do¹, Hui Dong, Ping Shum

Affiliation

¹ School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. [email protected]

PMID: 17279137
DOI: 10.1364/ao.46.000916

Abstract

The polarization mode dispersion (PMD) of a nondepolarizing optical system is analyzed. A new method is proposed to calculate the complex PMD vector by measuring two Jones matrices at two different wavelengths.