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A type of fiber which is designed to support only one polarization mode over a specified wavelength range.  This fiber can be useful for manufacturing fiber polarizers or in experiments where only one orientation of polarization is desirable.

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Related Terms: Beat Length, Birefringence, Birefringent Fiber, Bow-Tie Fiber, H-Parameter, Highly Birefringent (HiBi), Polarization Dependent Loss (PDL), Polarization Extinction Ratio (PER), Polarization Maintaining (PM) Fiber, Polarization Mode, Polarizing Fiber, Zing Fiber