Opto-Electronic Engineering, Volume. 37, Issue 8, 36(2010)

Method Optimization and Determining Polarization Direction Experiment of Ultra-fine Polarization Maintaining Fiber

RONG Wei-bin*... GAO Jian, CHEN Tao, WANG Le-feng and SUN Li-ning |Show fewer author(s)
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    In order to replace the commonly used normal diameter Polarization Maintaining (PM) fiber with the ultra-fine PM fiber in fiber optic gyroscopes and other key components, the method of determining its polarization direction needs to be improved and optimized. First, theoretical images of side-view-image method were obtained by computer simulation using ray-tracing method. Then, the situations were verified whose simulated results were better, and the experimental curves were Fourier expanded to suppress random noise. The three-bright-line method whose experimental result was better was improved into three-bright-line-four-feature-point method, and this method was verified by experiments. Finally, the repeatability of this method was measured. Experimental results indicate that the three-bright-line-four-feature-point method has greatly increased the anti-jamming capability of the process of ultra-fine PM fiber polarization direction’s determining, and the repeatability achieves 1.6°. This result has reached the repeatability of common PM fiber polarization direction’s determining, and met the requirement of practical applications..

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    RONG Wei-bin, GAO Jian, CHEN Tao, WANG Le-feng, SUN Li-ning. Method Optimization and Determining Polarization Direction Experiment of Ultra-fine Polarization Maintaining Fiber[J]. Opto-Electronic Engineering, 2010, 37(8): 36

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    Received: May. 6, 2010

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Sep. 7, 2010

    The Author Email: Wei-bin RONG (rwb@hit.edu.cn)

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    CSTR:32186.14.

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