Title :
Direct measurement of stress-induced birefringence profiles and new finite-element modelling of polarization-maintaining fibres
Author :
Loch, M. ; Hauff, T. ; Heinlein, W.
Author_Institution :
Kaiserslautern Univ., West Germany
Abstract :
Presents a novel technique to measure the birefringence profiles of stress-induced polarization-maintaining fibres and a new finite-element method to evaluate mode field characteristics from measured data. The application of these techniques to the bow-tie fibre York HB 600/2 and independently measured modal birefringence show sufficiently good agreement
Keywords :
finite element analysis; light polarisation; mechanical birefringence; optical fibres; optical testing; York HB 600/2; bow-tie fibre; finite-element method; mode field characteristics; stress-induced birefringence profiles; stress-induced polarization-maintaining fibres;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 1988. (ECOC 88). Fourteenth European Conference on (Conf. Publ. No.292)
Conference_Location :
Brighton
