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Product Highlights:
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Comprehensive Polarization Stabilization / Control / Switching Capabilities
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Reset-Free / Endless Operation
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Covers Entire Range from 1.3µm Window up to the L-band
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Compact Size
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Standalone Operation
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Robust, no Moving Parts
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PC Software: polarizationNAVIGATOR
Applications:
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Transmission System Test: Polarization Sensitivity Analysis on Link /
Transmission Quality
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Recirculating Loop Experiments: Loop-Synchronous Polarization Scrambling
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Interferometry: Polarization Stabilization to Maximize Contrast Ratio
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Component Test: Measurement of PMD / PDL Characteristics of Optical
Components
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The A3300 contains a high-speed Lithium-Niobate based polarization controller
and a polarization analyzer plus a microcontroller based driving circuitry.
This unit can operate in various modes:
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As Polarization Stabilizer it provides a stable output State
of Polarization (SOP) even with fluctuations and drifts of the input SOP. The
stabilized output signal is guided in a Standard Single-Mode Fiber (SMF). The
output SOP can be defined in following ways:
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Set-and-forget: When the front button is pushed, the current SOP is stored and
maintained, even if polarization changes occur on the instrument input.
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Defined Stokes: The target output SOP can be defined by the user using the
Stokes parameters.
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As Synchronous Scrambler
the device switches the SOP of the output signal in a (pseudo) random way.
Switching of the SOP occurs within few microseconds. During every switching
operation the unit provides an electrical (TTL) trigger signal which allows
synchronization of external processes. Alternatively an electrical trigger
input can be used to synchronize the scrambler with external events.
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As SOP Switch
the A3300 cycles through a sequence of SOPs with a speed of up to 40 kHz, which
corresponds to a cycle time of less than 25 microseconds. The sequence of SOPs
can easily be defined by the user using Stokes coefficients.
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As traditional Scrambler
the A3300 varies the output SOP in a random way. Full coverage of the Poincaré
Sphere is achieved within few ms.
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As Polarization Analyzer the instrument provides truly
high-speed capabilities: More than 500 000 samples can be taken with a sample
rate of up to 1 Megasample per second.
The unit does not contain any moving parts and therefore is robust and
withstands even rough environmental conditions. All abovementioned applications
of the A3300 are supported by Adaptif Photonicsâ polarizationNAVIGATOR
PC based application software which comes along with this instrument.
Instrument drivers compatible with LabVIEW® are provided. Connectivity to
external applications (LabVIEW®, Excel, ERP Database, etc.) are provided
through a DLL interface. Examples are provided in LabVIEW® and Excel.
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