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| Author(s): | A. Rogers |
| Publisher: | Artech House Books |
| ISBN: | 9781580535342 |
| Format: | hardback |
| 273pp | |
| Price: | £55.00 |
| Review Date: | 26 May 2008 |
| Review: | Optical fibres are used for guiding light for a variety of purposes – but usually for the effective delivery of coded optical power. However, the detailed properties of light, a transverse wave, are described by its polarization behaviour: these properties are especially important where there is transverse asymmetry in the medium through which the light is propagating (maybe because the fibre is bent or twisted, the cross-section is not a true circle, or there are electric or magnetic fields). This may cause problems in optical telecommunications, but may be useful in optical sensors, for example. This book provides the understanding of the polarization phenomena in order to mitigate the problems (or enhance the advantages) to maximise the use of the optical fibres. |