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The polarisation holding ability of high birefringence fibres wound into small coils is investigated. For coil diameters below 3 cm–4 cm, the polarisation holding degrades very quickly with decreasing diameter. The crosscoupling is thought to be due to microbending effects.
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Rashleigh et al. (1983) studied this question.
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