Uniformly distributed states of polarization on the Poincare Sphere using an improved polarization scrambling scheme

We propose a periodic random polarization scrambling scheme that can generate uniformly distributed output states of polarization (SOPs) on the Poincare sphere for any arbitrary input polarization state. This approach is compared with previous methods using computer simulations, as well as an experimental measurement consisting of 1000 samples that confirms the uniformity of output SOPs. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.