Alignment of polarisation-maintaining fibres by temperature modulation |
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| Authors: | Walker GR Walker NG |
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| Affiliation: | British Telecom Research Laboratories, Ipswich, UK; |
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| 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. |
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