AN EMITTER, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD

An emitter configured to output a sequence of periodic light pulses with different polarisations, the emitter comprising:a beam splitter configured to divide the pulses of a first sequence of pulses, such that each pulse is split between a first path and a second path, the first sequence of pulses having a varying phase and a first polarisation;a polarisation rotator configured to rotate the polarisation state of pulses in one of the first path or the second path with respect to the polarisation state of pulses in the other path;a time delay component configured to provide a time delay such that the first sequence of pulses in the first arm are delayed by one period with respect to the first sequence of pulses in the second arm;an optical combination component configured to combine the delayed first sequence of pulses from the first path with the first sequence of pulses from the second path to produce an output sequence of pulses where each pulse in the output sequence is a combination of a pulse from the second path and a delayed pulse from the first path and has a polarisation determined from the phase difference between combined pulses and the polarisation of the first path and the second path.