Arc-fusion splicing of 2.1 km-long single-polarisation fibres with stress-induced birefringence is performed using mode-locked YAG laser pulses. By monitoring the pulse shapes due to the polarisation dispersion, alignment for the parallel or the crossprincipal axes of the core refractive-index ellipsoid is easily realised.
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Sasaki et al. (1982) studied this question.