On polarization characteristic in fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer with short different length of two arms

Author

Hong, Zehua ; Li, Xinwan ; Li, Shuguang ; Shen, Jianguo ; Luo, Haimei ; Zhang, Tairan ; Li, Fang ; Chen, Jianping

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Adv. Opt. Commun. Syst. & Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2009

fDate

8-10 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

630

Lastpage

632

Abstract

Polarization dependent of fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer is one of the factors which restrict the precision and stability of interferometer based on Mach-Zehnder structure. Making use of Jones Matrix, a propagation equation of polarization dependent fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer was given, and then the output spectrum was shown by the propagation equation. Then an experimentally result is demonstrated to verify analysis result. It shows the calculating result is consistent with experiment. This result provides a theory guidance to analyze the influence of polarization characteristic in interferometers based on Mach-Zehnder structure. The method also can be adapted in other fiber interferometers such as fiber Michelson interferometer and so on.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; light propagation; optical fibre polarisation; Jones matrix; fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer; output spectrum; polarization characteristic; propagation equation; Arm; Electronic mail; Equations; Mathematics; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber theory; Optical interferometry; Optical propagation; Optical refraction; Jones Matrix; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; polarization dependent; propagation equation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2009. APCC 2009. 15th Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4784-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4785-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCC.2009.5375550

Filename

5375550