1415 results about "Polarization-maintaining optical fiber" patented technology

This disclosure presents a non-contact precision optical device, including methods for measuring distances to an arbitrary target and various configuration geometries, for using polarization maintaining (PM) optical fiber components in a polarization diplexing scheme to construct a version of a dual chirp coherent laser radar that is immune to environmental effects.

A modelocked linear fiber laser cavity with enhanced pulse-width control includes concatenated sections of both polarization-maintaining and non-polarization-maintaining fibers. Apodized fiber Bragg gratings and integrated fiber polarizers are included in the cavity to assist in linearly polarizing the output of the cavity. Very short pulses with a large optical bandwidth are obtained by matching the dispersion value of the fiber Bragg grating to the inverse of the dispersion of the intra-cavity fiber.

Generally, and in one form of the present invention, is a polarization-maintaining fiber-based polarization sensitive optical low coherence reflectometer for depth resolved birefringence measurement. With the present invention, linear birefringence of a sample may be measured from data recorded in a single A-Scan. In addition, the present invention provides for the simultaneous measurement of retardation and orientation of birefringent axes, wherein measured retardation is insensitive to sample rotation in the plane perpendicular to ranging.

The invention provides a method and device for detecting a polarization extinction ratio of an optical polarizer. The detection method comprises the following steps of: making linear polarized light incident along a principal axis of an optical polarizer to be detected, and obtaining two light signals on two orthogonal optical axes at an outgoing end due to polarization crosstalk; interfering and carrying out photoelectric conversion and data acquisition on interfering light signals to obtain one group of discrete voltage signal values reflecting the interfering light intensity signals; and calculating coupling intensity h at each coupling spot based on a formula (1), and calculating an extinction ratio of the optical polarizer to be detected based on a formula (2). The device sequentially comprises a light source, an isolator module, a polarization module, the optical polarizer to be detected, a projection direction regulating module, an interferometer module, a data acquisition module and a central processor module. The invention has the advantage that the coupling intensity of the coupling spots is detected to induce the polarization extinction ratio, so that the measurement result is accurate. The invention is suitable for various optical polarizers, such as polarization maintaining fibers, polarization maintaining fiber couplers, polarizers and the like and has certain universality.

The invention discloses a four-state quantum encoder and decoder for phase modulation polarization encoding and a quantum key distribution system. The encoder and the decoder have intrinsic stability, namely, the working stability is not influenced by the external environment or connecting optical fibers which can be common mono-mode optical fibers. The quantum encoder and decoder can be applied to the field of quantum key distribution, the whole system comprises a transmitting end and a receiving end, and the transmitting end and the receiving end are connected through a quantum channel to complete the key distribution process. The quantum encoder and decoder can achieve BB84 protocol four-state quantum key encoding and decoding with intrinsic stability. The common mono-mode optical fibers can be used as all the connecting optical fibers without using polarization-maintaining optical fibers, and interference with the phase drift and polarization change of the system from the external environment has no influence on the encoding or decoding process at all.

The invention discloses a sensing device of optical fiber distribution type temperature and stress and mainly comprises a light source module (1), a frequency discriminator module (2), and a thermo tank module (3), which are all connected with one another by polarization-preserving fiber. The invention is a direct detection method which is based on optical fiber Raman scattering used as a carrier wave of temperature information, brillouin scattering used as a carrier wave of stress, rayleigh scattering used for measuring relative frequency of a outgoing laser beam to a frequency discriminator and Fabry-Perot etalon used for discriminating frequency and distributing sensing temperature and stress. The invention has the advantages of simple structure, fine stability, avoidance of outgoing power of the light source during coherent detection, outgoing frequency of the light source. Instability of acoustic modulation or electro-optic modulation frequency is directly referred to measure errors and the direct detection technology of the frequency discrimination is not sensitive to frequency drift of the light source and fluctuation of signal intensity.

An optical frequency comb calibration-based dual-color laser scanning absolute distance measuring device and a method are characterized in that the device comprises a laser light source system, a polarization-maintaining optical fiber system, a Michelson interference system and a laser frequency calibration system. The method comprises the steps of controlling two tunable lasers in the laser light source system to continuously simultaneously adjust the output light frequency without mode skips, wherein the laser frequency calibration system records the interference signal of the Michelson interference system and a beat frequency signal of the tunable lasers and the optical frequency comb; computing the scanning range of the lasers and the period integer and period decimal of the phase change of the interference signal in the scanning process according to the collected data; and finally computing to obtain the absolute distance of a to-be-measured light path refractive face. The optical frequency comb calibration-based dual-color laser scanning absolute distance measuring device and the method have the advantages of simple system structure, high measuring precision, compensating effect on air refractive index, and traceable measuring outcome, and are suitable for the measuring field of space absolute distance.

The invention discloses a detection method suitable for a sensing device of optical fiber distribution type temperature and stress. The sensing device of the optical fiber distribution type temperature and stress mainly comprises a light source module (1), a frequency discriminator module (2), and a thermo tank module (3), which are all connected with one another by polarization-preserving fiber. The detection method of the invention is a direct detection method which is based on optical fiber Raman scattering used as a carrier wave of temperature information, brillouin scattering used as a carrier wave of stress, rayleigh scattering used for measuring the relative frequency of a outgoing laser beam to the frequency discriminator and Fabry-Perot etalon used for discriminating frequency and distributing sensing temperature and stress. The invention has the advantages of simple structure, fine stability, avoidance of outgoing power of the light source during coherent detection, and outgoing frequency of the light source. Instability of acoustic modulation or electro-optic modulation frequency is directly referred to measure errors and the direct detection technology of frequency discrimination is not sensitive to the frequency drift of the light source and the fluctuation of signal intensity.

The invention discloses a dual-polarization interferometric fiber-optic gyro which belongs to the field of communication technology. The fiber-optic gyro comprises a light source, two linear polarized light generating circuits, two signal detection light paths, a polarized beam splitter/combiner, a polarization-maintaining coupler, a phase modulator and a polarization-maintaining fiber-optic ring; wherein the light source is connected with the input ends of the two linear polarized light generating circuits by optic fibers; two output ends of the two linear polarized light generating circuits are respectively connected with two ports at the same side of the polarized beam splitter/combiner by optic fibers through one signal detection light path; the port at the other side of the polarized beam splitter/combiner is connected with the polarization-maintaining fiber-optic ring through the polarization-maintaining coupler; and the phase modulator is connected between the polarization-maintaining fiber-optic ring and the polarization-maintaining coupler by optic fibers. Compared with the prior art, the fiber-optic utilizes the dual-polarized light to carry out the detection, thereby greatly improving the measuring precision and the measuring stability of the rotating angular velocity; meanwhile, the fiber-optic gyro has the advantages of simple structure, low cost, small volume, high sensitivity and wide application range simultaneously.

The invention relates to a device for detecting polarization-maintaining optical fiber, belonging to the technical field of optical measurement and optical fiber sensing. The device comprises a light source, a polarizer, a light beam splitter, a light delayer, a light beam combiner, a light detector and a circuit. A linearly polarized light beam is provided by the light source; after the light beam passes through the optical fiber to be detected, the polarization state of the light beam is turned by an angle through the polarizer; then the light beam enters the light beam splitter and is divided into two light beams; one light beam is delayed by the light delayer and is combined in the light beam combiner for interference; the light detector receives the interfered light and converts the interfered light into electric signals; and finally the circuit processes the electric signals to obtain the conditions of all parts of the optical fiber. The invention has the advantages that the conditions of the polarization-maintaining optical fiber can be accurately, conveniently and rapidly detected and the realization of the application of the polarization-maintaining optical fiber in fields such as sensing and the like is facilitated.

The present invention discloses a polarization relevant output multi-wavelength and passive mode-locking optical fiber laser which belongs to laser and light communication field. A ring laser cavity includes Er-doped fiber that is taken as gain medium; a 980nm/1550nm wavelength-division multiplexer is used to couple pumping laser of 980nm into the Er-doped fiber; a polarization relevant isolator with tail optical fiber on two ends guaranties the laser work in one way, meanwhile plays the role of a polarizer; two polarization controllers respectively on two side of the polarization relevant isolator are used to control polarization state, a 10dB coupler with 10% of the terminal port used to output optical signal and 90% of the optical signal stays in the cavity for cycle. A segment of long single mode fiber is inserted in the laser cavity and used to increase nonlinear effect inside the laser cavity; a piece of polarization maintaining optical fiber and a polarization relevant isolator constitute a birefraction optical fiber periodicity filter; the optical fiber laser is provided with two different output modes, namely mode locking pulse output and multi- wavelength continuous wave output, and can adjust polarization and switch between the two output modes.

The invention discloses a microwave optical fiber link device for long-distance transmission of radar reference frequency signals and relates to the technology of radar detection. The microwave optical fiber link device consists of an optical emitter, an optical receiver, a Faraday rotating mirror, an optical circulator, a polarization maintaining optical fiber, a radio-frequency power amplifier and the like. By subjecting microwaves to electric-optical and optical-electric conversion and utilizing the advantages of low insertion loss and high-temperature phase stability of the optical fiber, the microwaves are transmitted in low phase fluctuation and loss in the long distance. The microwave optical fiber link device can be used for transmission of rate-aided signals of spatial long-base line interference synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and transmission of reference frequency signals of radar systems such as phased array radars and multi-base radar monitoring net. Besides, phase changes caused by environmental factors such as temperature and irradiation can be accurately compensated during long-distance transmission of X-wave band microwave signals, and meanwhile, the microwave optical fiber link device has ultrawide radio-frequency (RF) working band and can be developed for transmission of radar reference frequency signals ranging from 50MHz to18GHz.

A polarization maintaining optical fiber, for guiding a measuring light beam, is provided within a probe. The probe is configured to be rotatable in the circumferential direction of the polarization maintaining optical fiber. A polarization direction rotating means, for rotating the polarization direction of the measuring light beam that enters the polarization maintaining optical fiber accompanying rotation of the probe, is provided in order to maintain a state in which the polarization direction of the measuring light beam that enters the polarization maintaining optical fiber and the direction of the polarization axis of the polarization maintaining optical fiber are matched.

The invention discloses an atomic spin precession detection method and device based on circular polarization detection light. The atomic spin precession detection method is based on spinning light characteristics of polarized atoms of an atom air chamber, left circular polarization light and right circular polarization light are formed through double refracted light paths, the left circular polarization light and the right circular polarization light are fed into the atom air chamber, phase position difference in direct proportion to atomic spin precession is generated from left spinning circular polarization light and right spinning circular polarization light of the air chamber, outgoing circular polarization light is fed back along the original path by using a reflection mirror, the left and right spinning directions of the left spinning circular polarization light and the right spinning circular polarization light are switched, the phase position difference is multiplied, the left spinning circular polarization light and the right spinning circular polarization light are interfered according to a circular polarization light interference technique, and thus phase position difference measurement and high-sensitivity detection on atomic spin precession detection are achieved. Atomic spin precession detection can be achieved, and the atomic spin precession detection device is high in precision, sensitivity, and anti-interference capability and small in size. The method and the device are practical, and super high in sensitivity and precision when provided for an atomic spin precession sensor based on atomic spin precession detection.

The invention discloses a passive mode-locking fiber laser with a double-wavelength short pulse output. The invention has the characteristics of high stability, high efficiency, high power, high pulse repetition rate, synchronous passive laser impulse, single-line polarization, tunability, double wavelength and ultrashort pulse output. The ultrashort pulse fiber laser of the invention uses two polarization-preserving rare-earth doped (Er3+/ doped Yb3+) fibers as laser grain media, adopts a broadband polarization beam splitter spectrum and a broadband chirp polarization-preserving fiber grating and the like as cavity surface reflecting elements and chromatic dispersion compensation elements and utilizes a semiconductor saturable absorber as mode-locked elements and the like to achieve double-wavelength passive synchronous ultrashort pulse mode-locked fiber laser output. The passive mode-locking fiber laser with the double-wavelength short pulse output is a fiber laser with a novel structure of double-wavelength mode-locked ultrashort pulse output, which can achieve full-fiber.

The invention discloses a difference double-interference type optical fiber gyroscope based on birefringence modulation. The optical fiber gyroscope comprises a light source, a modulator, a coupler, an optical fiber ring, a polarization beam splitter, a first detector and a second detector, wherein the light source and the modulator are welded at a melting point O1 with an angle of 45 DEG; the modulator and a port A of the coupler are welded at a melting point O2 with an angle of 45 DEG; an end C of the coupler and one end of a polarization-maintaining optical fiber ring are welded at a melting point O3 with an angle of 0 DEG; an end D of the coupler and the other end of the optical fiber ring are welded at a melting point O4 with an angle of 90 DEG; an end B of the coupler and an input end of the polarization beam splitter are welded at a melting point O5 with an angle of 0 DEG; and two output ends of the polarization beam splitter are respectively welded to the first detector and the second detector. According to the invention, closed-loop control of the difference double-interference type optical fiber gyroscope is realized; and a wide-spectrum light source with very weak coherent characteristics is adopted, thereby avoiding strong noise brought by various stray wave interferences which are caused by strong coherent characteristics of a laser light source.

The invention discloses a single longitudinal-mode optical fiber laser with low noise, narrow linewidth and high power. Polarization maintaining optical fiber is rare-earth-doped phosphate single-mode glass optical fiber, the component of a fiber core is phosphate glass which consists of 70P2O5-8Al2O3-15BaO-4La2O3-3Nd2O3, the fiber core of the polarization maintaining optical fiber is doped with high-concentration luminous ions, the luminous ions are one or combination of more than one of lanthanide ions and transition metal ions, the doping density of the luminous ions is greater than 1*10<19>ions/cm<3> and the luminous ions are evenly doped in the fiber core. A polarization maintaining fiber Bragg grating with the narrow linewidth and a dichroscope form a front cavity mirror and a rear cavity mirror of the optical fiber laser, a centimeter-sized erbium-ytterbium co-doped phosphate glass polarization maintaining optical fiber is taken as a laser working substance, and polarization maintaining output laser generated by a single-mode semiconductor laser is taken as a pumping source, thus achieving the single longitudinal-mode laser output by designing and manufacturing the reflection spectrum width of the polarization maintaining fiber Bragg grating and controlling the cavity length of the whole laser cavity.