Author Affiliations
Abstract
The State Key Laboratory on Fiber-Optic Local Area Network and Advanced Optical Communication Systems, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030
The visibility in magnetostrictive fiber-optic interferometric sensors using a Gaussian laser beam is analyzed. It is shown that the conventional Gaussian laser beam has little influence on the visibility. The visibility depends strongly on the input state of polarization (SOP). We implement a cylindrical transducer and build a measurement setup with a polarization controller. The visibility dependent on the SOP of input light is measured. The estimated values are similar to the experiment results, which verifies the analysis.
060.2370 fiber optics sensors 060.2430 fibers single-mode 120.3180 interferometry 120.6710 susceptibility Chinese Optics Letters
2006, 4(1): 0115
