Polarization-maintaining fiber coupler, preparation method thereof and all-fiber optical current sensor

Abstract

The invention discloses a polarization-maintaining fiber coupler. A coupling region of the polarization-maintaining fiber coupler is made of single-mode optical fibers, an input end of the polarization-maintaining fiber coupler at least contains a polarization-maintaining optical fiber, an output end which is directly communicated with the input end is one single-mode optical fiber, the input endof the polarization-maintaining fiber coupler at least contains one single-mode optical fiber, an output end which is directly communicated with the input end is the polarization-maintaining optical fiber, and the polarization-maintaining optical fibers of the input end and the output end are fused with the corresponding single-mode optical fibers in the coupling region respectively. A method forpreparing the polarization-maintaining fiber coupler comprises the following steps that: firstly, a heat sealer is used to prepare two-node optical fibers; secondly, the optical fibers are arranged and axially positioned according to the design requirement; and finally, a plurality of the single-mode optical fibers in the middle are fused and drawn into the coupling region. In the polarization-maintaining fiber coupler, the coupling region is formed by drawing the single-mode optical fibers, so a device has the characteristics of no sensitivity to the polarization and temperature environment,and the stability and the reliability of the device are greatly improved. The invention also discloses an all-fiber optical current sensor.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a polarization maintaining optical fiber coupler and a preparation method thereof. The invention also relates to an all-fiber current sensor using the polarization-maintaining fiber coupler. Background technique [0002] Polarization-maintaining fiber couplers are widely used in various fields, especially in polarization-maintaining sensors. At present, most of the polarization-maintaining fibers are stress-type polarization-maintaining fibers. The main characteristics of the polarization-maintaining coupler made of this type of fiber are particularly sensitive to temperature. limits. Here we take 3×3 polarization-maintaining fiber coupling as an example (see figure 1 ), this device is made by using three polarization-maintaining optical fibers to be placed and positioned in a straight line, and then ensure that the optical fibers are parallel and close together, and then fused and tapered. Due to the difficulty of manufact...

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[0003] The all-fiber current sensor using the traditional 3×3 polarization-maintaining fiber coupler also makes the main performance of the device unreliable due to the shortcomings of the traditional polarization-maintaining fiber coupler

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