Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 37, Issue 10, 1023001(2017)

Magnetic Control Characteristics of Nonlinear Fiber Sagnac Structure

Zhuo Wang, Baojian Wu*, Feng Wen, Xingyu Zhou, and Kun Qiu
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  • Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communications of the Ministry of Education, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan 611731, China
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    The transmission matrix of the magneto-optical (MO) nonlinear fiber Sagnac structure is deduced, which can be used to analyze the influences of fiber birefringence, MO effect, nonlinear phase shift, the polarization controller state and the total loss of the fiber loop on the transmittance of Sagnac. The MO modulation of Sagnac structure and functions of nonlinear optically-controlled-optical switch are experimentally investigated. The MO modulation degree can reach 17.05 dB under the applied magnetic field of 0.0177 T, which is in good agreement with the theoretical analysis. When the peak power of the clock pump control signal is 28.2 dBm, the extinction ratio of optically-controlled-optical switch can reach 25.8 dB. The extinction ratio of the switch can increase 0.7 dB by further applying the magnetic field. To some extent, the magnetic field response of the optically-controlled-optical Sagnac structure may be equally analyzed with the help of polarization control state.

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    Zhuo Wang, Baojian Wu, Feng Wen, Xingyu Zhou, Kun Qiu. Magnetic Control Characteristics of Nonlinear Fiber Sagnac Structure[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2017, 37(10): 1023001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Optical Devices

    Received: May. 2, 2017

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Sep. 7, 2018

    The Author Email: Wu Baojian (bjwu@uestc.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS201737.1023001

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