Birefringent-fiber splice alignment

Sidney L. Alessi Carrara

doi:10.1117/12.20286

1 August 1990 Birefringent-fiber splice alignment

Sidney L. Alessi Carrara

Proceedings Volume 1267, Fiber Optic Sensors IV; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.20286
Event: The International Congress on Optical Science and Engineering, 1990, The Hague, Netherlands

Abstract

A simple technique is presented for azimuthal alignment of the birefringent axes of a polarization maintaining fiber at a splicing point. Alignment accuracy better than ±0.01 is consistently obtained and is fairly independent of polarization cross coupling occurring in the fiber sections being spliced. The technique is particularly suitable for splicing birefringent fiber pigtails to laser diodes or integrated optics devices.

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Sidney L. Alessi Carrara "Birefringent-fiber splice alignment", Proc. SPIE 1267, Fiber Optic Sensors IV, (1 August 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.20286

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