Measurement of photo-induced birefringence in germanosilicate fibers

  • Li Jiang (姜莉)
  • Dong-sheng Zhang (张东生)
  • Xin-fa Dong (董兴法)
  • Gui-yun Kai (开桂云)
  • Xiao-yi Dong (董孝义)
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Abstract

In this paper, we report a novel method for accurately measuring the photo-induced birefringence of germanosilicate fibers by using an all fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The results indicate that the photo-induced normalized birefringence of C598-302(s) germanosilicate fiber can attain 10−5 and is multi-decaying-exponentially proportional to the UV exposure.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometer germanosilicate fibers photo-induced birefringence 

PACS numbers

42.25.Lc 42.81.-i 07.60.Ly 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Li Jiang (姜莉)
    • 1
  • Dong-sheng Zhang (张东生)
    • 1
  • Xin-fa Dong (董兴法)
    • 1
  • Gui-yun Kai (开桂云)
    • 1
  • Xiao-yi Dong (董孝义)
    • 1
  1. 1.University of Science and Technology of SuzhouSuzhouChina

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