This technique is based on measurements of changes in the state of polarization when polarized light is reflected against a surface, given by the relative change in amplitude, Ψ, and phase shift, Δ.
The simulation results show that linear polarized light becomes to depolarize only after 2 MFP, elliptical polarized light maintains its state of polarization under longer MFPs, and circular polarized light can keep a high DOP even after ten scattering events.
In this configuration, the Omnipolarizer has allowed us to self-trap the state of polarization of an arbitrary polarized OOK 40-Gbit/s without any polarization depending loss, and provided weak penalty when compared to back-to-back measurements.
Intuitively, when travelling through the medium, polarized photons will maintain their state of polarization to a different extent, depending on the absorption or scattering events, that is, according to the transport mean free path (MFP) [ 5– 9].
In the color management system a wire-grid polarizer is used to combine two beams with opposite state of polarization.
In summary, this work reports the first experimental observation of self-organization of light state of polarization in optical fiber.
Yet the trend far predates the current state of polarization, as Loch Johnson's 1984 book on this topic makes clear.
The sensitivity dependence on incident SOP (state of polarization) is investigated.
This mixing is then independent of the state of polarization of the hybrid input light.
Here we demonstrate the unexpected capability of light to self-organize its own state-of-polarization, upon propagation in optical fibers, into universal and environmentally robust states, namely right and left circular polarizations.
The optical train terminated in the input facet of a rotating waveplate-based polarimeter (Thorlabs, Newton, NJ) which was connected to a personal computer for real-time state-of-polarization measurements.
