Birefringence measurements of single-mode fibers using the polarization shuttle pulse technique
Authors:
- F. StoneFSF. Stone
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Journal of Lightwave Technology
- Vol. 4 (1) , 30-33
Abstract
A novel and practical polarization shuttle pulse (PSP) technique has been developed to measure the intrinsic birefringence in short lengths of nominally circular-core low-birefringence single-mode fibers. By adding a linear polarizer, a Soleil-Babinet compensator, and a linear analyzer to the conventional shuttle-pulse arrangement, the length dependence of the phase delay (and hence the birefringence) can be measured nondestructively. An order-of-magnitude improvement in measurement repeatability over the conventional cut-back method has been achieved.Keywords
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