Optics: measuring and testing – Range or remote distance finding – With photodetection
Patent
1983-12-05
1988-03-08
Buczinski, Stephen C.
Optics: measuring and testing
Range or remote distance finding
With photodetection
350 9629, 350371, 350387, 350405, 350407, 356350, G02B 626, G02B 609, G02B 530
Patent
active
047296224
ABSTRACT:
This invention provides apparatus and methods for converting a lightwave of an arbitrary polarization propagating in a single mode optical fiber into a wave having a single linear polarization state. A polarization couples light of an undesired polarization out of the fiber, and a photodetector produces an error signal responsive to light coupled from the fiber. Control circuitry processes the error signal to produce control signals which are input to a polarization of light input to the polarizer to null the error signal. With the error signal maintained at a minimum value the light input to the polarizer and, hence, the light ouput therefrom is a wave having only the desired linear polarization.
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Buczinski Stephen C.
Litton Systems Inc.
Lynn John H.
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