Polarization Scattering Property of Cascaded Polarization Controllers

The relation between the allowed range of variation of polarization controller wave-plates angles and the respective polarization scattering properties is investigated. It is demonstrated that a nearly uniform polarization scattering over the Poincare sphere is obtained using a concatenation of three polarization controllers with angles randomly changed between $-{\pi}$/4 and ${\pi}$/4. It is also shown that an improvement of the scattering properties is obtained if the configuration angles are allowed to change between $-{\pi}$/2 and ${\pi}$/2.