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A particular example of the so-called minimum-configuration fiber ring interferometer whose loop comprises two different-length segments of a single-mode optical fiber with the same linear birefringence but different twisting is used to show that even in the case where the birefringence axes at the loop input coincide with the polarizer transmission direction, the phenomenon of polarization nonreciprocity of the fiber ring interferometer can emerge. It is shown that polarization nonreciprocity can be eliminated by the proper adjustment of the axes of a single-mode optical fiber, but the above adjustment should be changed if the waveguide temperature is changed.
It is also shown that polarization nonreciprocity is a function of the light wavelength and the polarization nonreciprocity value in a fiber ring interferometer varies quasiperiodically in response to the temperature change in an optical fiber with random irregularities.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 47, Nos. 10–11, pp. 991–999, October–November, 2004.
In conclusion, I thank Vl. V. Kocharovsky for useful remarks and V. I. Pozdnyakova for assistance. This work was partially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project No. 03-02-17253) and Council on the Grants of the President of the Russian Federation for Support of Leading Scientific Schools. (grant No. NSh-1622.2003.2).
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Malykin, G.B. Influence of the irregularity of twisting of the birefringence axes of single-mode optical fibers on the polarization nonreciprocity of fiber ring interferometers. Radiophys Quantum Electron 47, 890–897 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-005-0028-3
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