Temperature-sensitive dual-segment polarization maintaining fiber Sagnac loop mirror
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2010
Abstract
A new temperature-sensitive fiber Sagnac loop mirror (FLM) is proposed using two segments of polarization maintaining fiber (PMF). The proposed dual-segment FLM provides greater temperature sensitivity in the spectral spacing detuning compared to the conventional single-segment configuration. Besides, the proposed configuration also enables both efficient positive and negative spectral spacing detuning by rising the temperature of one of the PMF segments. The experimental results show that the proposed configuration has achieved a great improvement in increasing spectral spacing variation range by 6.6 times and an increment of temperature sensitivity as much as 337.6% as compared to the conventional configuration.
Keywords
Fiber Sagnac loop mirror, Birefringence, Polarization maintaining fiber
Divisions
fac_eng,PHYSICS
Publication Title
Optics & Laser Technology
Volume
42
Issue
2
Publisher
Elsevier