Polarization-maintaining fiber per value
It is difficult for manufacturers to specify a polarization extinction ratio (PER) for light output by polarization-maintaining (PM) fibers, since this parameter depends on the length of the fiber, how it is routed, and the polarization and alignment of the input light. In most applications for PM fiber, only one of the two polarization orientations (states) is used - this is sometimes called the 'wanted' polarization-state.
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