General Photonics

General Photonics PCD-104 Polarization Scrambler. The PCD-104 Polarization Scrambler randomizes the instantaneous polarization state of output light to achieve a time-averaged depolarization effect. The PCD-104 combines a fiber squeezer polarization controller with specialized driver electronics to achieve uniform Poincaré sphere coverage in a few ms. Because it uses the resonance frequencies of the polarization controller, the scrambling rate is fixed. Because of the all-fiber construction, it has low insertion loss and low back reflection as well as minimal phase and amplitude modulation.

General Photonics PCD-104 Polarization Scrambler. The PCD-104 Polarization Scrambler randomizes the instantaneous polarization state of output light to achieve a time-averaged depolarization effect. The PCD-104 combines a fiber squeezer polarization controller with specialized driver electronics to achieve uniform Poincaré sphere coverage in a few ms. Because it uses the resonance frequencies of the polarization controller, the scrambling rate is fixed. Because of the all-fiber construction, it has low insertion loss and low back reflection as well as minimal phase and amplitude modulation.