{"title":"The Onsager relations and birefringence in optical fibers","authors":"C. Menyuk","doi":"10.1109/PHOSST.2010.5553722","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"When there is no helicity, then the Onsager relations are inherited by the waveguide, and the birefringence must be linear. By contrast, fiber twisting can transform the intrinsic linear birefringence into an extrinsic birefringence that is elliptical.","PeriodicalId":440419,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals 2010","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2010-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals 2010","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHOSST.2010.5553722","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
When there is no helicity, then the Onsager relations are inherited by the waveguide, and the birefringence must be linear. By contrast, fiber twisting can transform the intrinsic linear birefringence into an extrinsic birefringence that is elliptical.