Title :
Alignment of polarisation-maintaining fibres by temperature modulation
Author :
Walker, Geoffrey R. ; Walker, N.G.
Author_Institution :
British Telecom Research Laboratories, Ipswich, UK
Abstract :
A novel nondestructive technique for rapidly aligning the input state of polarisation to a stress-effect polarisation-maintaining fibre has been implemented using temperature modulation. It can be applied easily on to a short length of fibre, gives alignment to better than 0.5°, and can identify the fast and slow axes.
Keywords :
birefringence; light polarisation; modulation; nondestructive testing; optical fibres; optical testing; input state; nondestructive technique; optical fibres; polarisation-maintaining fibres; stress-effect; temperature modulation; testing;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19870491
