摘要 |
Device for optical heterodyne detection of an optical signal beam and an optical transmission system provided with such a device. An optical heterodyne detection device is described in which with the aid of three controllable elements (A, B and C), to influence the state of polarization and having a limited control range, such as Faraday rotators or birefringent electro-optical crystals, the state of polarization of radiation originating from a local oscillator (30) is made to correspond to the signal beam transmitted through a long-distance transmission fibre (10).
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