A fiber Lyot depolarizer was used to reduce the degree of polarization (DOP) of a laser pump diode. The typical DOP out of the depolarizer is better than 0.2 which should be sufficient to reduce the effect of pump polarization on erbium fiber amplifiers.Index Terms-Optical fiber amplifier, optical fiber birefringence, optical fiber device, polarization, semiconductor laser.
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