The invention discloses a measuring device and a method of a polarization maintaining optical fibre
Verdet constant. The measuring device mainly comprises a
light source and isolation module, a polarization control injection module, a
magnetic field and modulation module, a precision moving platform, a
polarization beam splitter, a photoelectric
detector, a
signal processing module and a
peak value detection module. A certain characteristic shaft of an
optical fiber to be measured is coupled with a counter shaft of the
polarization beam splitter at the exiting end. The measuring method comprises the following steps of changing light sent by a
laser into circularly polarized light through the polarization control injection module and then outputting to the
optical fiber to be measured, separating the light into two bundles of light through the
polarization beam splitter, moving a guide rail to control the position of a magnetic filed, collecting two bundles of
light intensity, conducting
processing on the two bundles of the
light intensity to obtain a corresponding
voltage signal peak value, and further calculating a
Verdet constant of the polarization maintaining optical fibre. The measuring device is simple and easy to operate, ensures maximum measured sensitivity, simultaneously avoids a measuring error caused by counter shaft operation and angle adjusting of the
optical fiber injection end, and further improves measuring precision.