Abstract

A theoretical model is proposed for explaining the recently observed modal dispersal of polarization information and its recovery in an experiment in which the coupling to the phase conjugator is by means of a (multi)mode dispersing fiber.

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Theory of polarization and spatial information recovery by modal dispersal and phase conjugation

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