Millilmeter and Optical Wave Communication

EC5701
Dr. Esther Florence S
ASP/DECE
CEG, AU
 Control Information

Author Esther Florence S

Reviewer
Version Number
Release Date 29 July 2023
 Cognitive Levels Addressed

Cognitive Level Cognitive Skill Evaulation

1 Remember Yes
2 Understand Yes
3 Apply Yes
4 Analyze Yes
5 Evaluate No
6 Create No
 Session Objectives
To learn the dispersion due to polarization in fibers
To learn about the core/cladding losses in fibers
 PMD

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• fiber is not perfectly symmetric, inhomogeneous.  D p  ,
• refractive index is not isotropic. L
 Polarization Maintaining Fibers
• Polarization maintaining fiber (PM Fiber) is a special type of single mode
fiber. Normal single mode fibers are capable  of carrying randomly
polarized light. However, PM fiber is designed to propagate only one
polarization of the input light.
• In polarization maintaining fiber, the polarization of linearly-polarized light
waves launched into the fiber is maintained during propagation, with little
or no cross-coupling of optical power between the polarization modes
• This polarization maintaining feature is extremely important for some
fiber optic components such as external modulators that require a
polarized light input.
• There are two categories of polarization maintaining fiber (PMF) available,
linear polarization maintaining fiber (LPMF) and circular polarization
maintaining fiber (CPMF).
Core and Cladding Loss