TY - JOUR
T1 - Design of polarization-insensitive optical fiber probe based on effective optical parameters
AU - Pham, T. T.Hien
AU - Lo, Yu Lung
AU - Chen, Po Chun
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received November 25, 2010; revised January 31, 2011; accepted February 26, 2011. Date of publication March 10, 2011; date of current version April 01, 2011. This work was supported in part by the National Science Council of Taiwan under Grant NSC96-2628-E-006-005-MY3. The authors are with the Mechanical Engineering Department, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan (e-mail: loyl@mail.ncku.edu.tw). Color versions of one or more of the figures in this paper are available online at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JLT.2011.2123870
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - When using an optical fiber probe to measure the properties of anisotropic optical materials, some form of polarization controller is required to compensate for the inherent birefringence and diattenuation properties of the fiber. The experimental settings of the optical components within the polarization controller are generally determined on a trial-and-error basis; resulting in a lengthy experimentation process. Accordingly, in the present study, a method is proposed for calculating in advance the precise controller settings required to guarantee the formation of a free-space condition. In the proposed approach, the effective optical parameters of the optical fiber are determined using an analytical method, and the optimal settings of the polarization controller are then determined using a genetic algorithm. It is shown that the proposed approach enables a free-space condition to be achieved for the common polarization controller. The practical applicability of the proposed approach is demonstrated by remotely and absolutely measuring the linear birefringence and linear diattenuation properties of a quarter-wave plate and a polarizer, respectively.
AB - When using an optical fiber probe to measure the properties of anisotropic optical materials, some form of polarization controller is required to compensate for the inherent birefringence and diattenuation properties of the fiber. The experimental settings of the optical components within the polarization controller are generally determined on a trial-and-error basis; resulting in a lengthy experimentation process. Accordingly, in the present study, a method is proposed for calculating in advance the precise controller settings required to guarantee the formation of a free-space condition. In the proposed approach, the effective optical parameters of the optical fiber are determined using an analytical method, and the optimal settings of the polarization controller are then determined using a genetic algorithm. It is shown that the proposed approach enables a free-space condition to be achieved for the common polarization controller. The practical applicability of the proposed approach is demonstrated by remotely and absolutely measuring the linear birefringence and linear diattenuation properties of a quarter-wave plate and a polarizer, respectively.
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U2 - 10.1109/JLT.2011.2123870
DO - 10.1109/JLT.2011.2123870
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79953820467
VL - 29
SP - 1127
EP - 1135
JO - Journal of Lightwave Technology
JF - Journal of Lightwave Technology
SN - 0733-8724
IS - 8
M1 - 5727899
ER -