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Estimating ellipticity of a fiber core using two types of interferometry

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In the present work two types of low-coherence interferometry are used to estimate the ellipticity of the core of an optical fiber in the cross section. Using the time-domain low-coherence interferometry the group-index difference between the degenerate high-order modes is measured. Because of the usage of a short fiber sample the group-index difference between the degenerate fundamental modes is too small to measure. Secondly, a frequency-domain low-coherence interferometry is presented in details. Since it is an all-fiber setup, longer fiber is allowed to be used. The high-order modes are filtered. The group-index difference between the degenerate fundamental modes is obtained. For each of the methods the experimental results are used to estimate the ellipticity of the fiber core in numerical simulations.

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  1. Tianjin Key Laboratory for Advanced Signal Processing, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin, 300300, P. R. China

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Ma, Y. Estimating ellipticity of a fiber core using two types of interferometry. OPT REV 20, 31–35 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10043-013-0006-5

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