| 摘要 |
Abstract of Disclosure The present invention provides a polarized wave scrambler and an optical signal transmission apparatus in which polarization mode dispersion, which causes degradation of a transmitted waveform, is suppressed, and which can be easily manufactured and are low-cost and stable. A polarized wave scrambler has a first polarization maintaining optical fiber and a second polarization maintaining optical fiber, wherein a constant component of a phase difference characteristic for optical frequency between a high-speed axis and a low-speed axis of the first polarization maintaining optical fiber is equal to that of the second polarization maintaining optical fiber, and a slope for optical frequency of the phase difference characteristic of the first polarization maintaining optical fiber is different from that of the second polarization maintaining optical fiber, wherein a plane of polarization of the linearly polarized optical signal is set to an angle between the high-speed axis and the low-speed axis of the first polarization maintaining optical fiber and the linearly polarized optical signal is supplied to the first polarization maintaining optical fiber, and wherein the first polarization maintaining optical fiber and the second polarization maintaining optical fiber are spliced such that the high-speed axis of the first polarization maintaining optical fiber corresponds to the low-speed axis of the second polarization maintaining optical fiber, and the low-speed axis of the first polarization maintaining optical fiber corresponds to the high-speed axis of the second polarization maintaining optical fiber.
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