Dispersion measurements of a birefrigent holey fiber using white-light spectral interferometry

D. Ciprian; P. Hlubina; J. Trojková

doi:10.1117/12.739661

12 April 2007 Dispersion measurements of a birefrigent holey fiber using white-light spectral interferometry

D. Ciprian, P. Hlubina, J. Trojková

Proceedings Volume 6609, 15th Czech-Polish-Slovak Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics; 66090W (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.739661
Event: 15th Czech-Polish-Slovak Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 2006, Liberec, Czech Republic

Abstract

We present white-light spectral interferometric techniques for measuring dispersion characteristics of a birefringent holey fiber supporting two lowest-order linearly polarized (LP) spatial modes. The first technique utilizes a low-resolution spectrometer at the output of a tandem configuration of a Michelson interferometer and the holey fiber to measure the equalization wavelength as a function of the optical path di.erence adjusted in the interferometer. Thus we measured the dispersion of the group modal birefringence for the LP₀₁ and even LP₁₁ spatial modes and the intermodal group dispersion for two orthogonal polarizations of the LP modes. We present also a new technique for measuring the differential group refractive index dispersion of the holey fiber which is inserted in one of the arms of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The technique is based on measuring the equalization wavelength as a function of the displacement of the interferometer mirror from the reference position, which corresponds to a balanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer.

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D. Ciprian, P. Hlubina, and J. Trojková "Dispersion measurements of a birefrigent holey fiber using white-light spectral interferometry", Proc. SPIE 6609, 15th Czech-Polish-Slovak Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 66090W (12 April 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.739661

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