Photoinduced birefringence rotation in germanosilicate glass optical fiber

Author

Wang, Anbo ; Zhou, Shunhua ; Murphy, Kent A.

Author_Institution

Bradley Dept. of Electr. Eng., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

15-18 Nov 1993

Firstpage

170

Lastpage

171

Abstract

ln conclusion, the photoinduced rotation of the principal axis of the birefringence has been observed on a exposure of the circular-core singlemode fiber to a linearly polarized argon-ion laser at 488 nm whose polarization was aligned along one of the principal axes of the initial birefringence of the fiber. A rotation angle for up to 57° has been observed after the several exposures for totally four hours for a length of 90 cm fiber

Keywords

birefringence; laser beam effects; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibres; optical rotation; 488 nm; 90 cm; GeO₂-SiO₂; birefringence; circular-core singlemode fiber; exposures; germanosilicate glass optical fiber; initial birefringence; linearly polarized argon-ion laser; photoinduced birefringence rotation; photoinduced rotation; principal axis; rotation angle; Birefringence; Fiber lasers; Glass; Laser beam cutting; Length measurement; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical retarders; Power lasers; Power measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1993. LEOS '93 Conference Proceedings. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1263-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1993.379085

Filename

379085