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Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 097903 (2002) [4 pages]

Communication with Dynamically Fluctuating States of Light Polarization

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Gregory D. VanWiggeren1,* and Rajarshi Roy2
1School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332
2Department of Physics, IREAP and IPST, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, Maryland 20742

Received 9 August 2001; published 13 February 2002

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The fast, irregular, fluctuations of the state of polarization of light output from an erbium doper fiber ring laser are used to communicate digital information. The experiments illustrate the application of a dynamical encoding and information recovery scheme that is robust to perturbations of the communication channel, a standard single mode fiber. A fiber-optic polarization analyzer was used to measure and visualize the polarization dynamics at nanosecond time scales on the Poincaré sphere.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.097903
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.097903
PACS:
05.45.Vx, 42.65.Sf, 42.55.Wd

*Current address: Agilent Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA 94304.

 
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