Theoretical and experimental analysis of thermal stress effects on modal polarization properties of highly birefringent optical fibers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 585-591

  Fontaine, Marie ^a,c,d,e   Wu, Binruo ^a   Tzolov, Velko P ^a,f,g   Bock, Wojtek J ^a,e,h,i   Urbanczyk, Waclaw ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^e Université du Québec ^*

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^g Optiwave Corporation   (Canada)

^h WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

ⁱ Optoelectronics Research Group

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CALCULATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL SENSORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CORE SPLICING METHOD; HIGHLY ELLIPTICAL CORE FIBERS; MODAL POLARIZATION PROPERTIES; THERMAL STRESS EFFECTS; WHITE LIGHT INTERFEROMETRIC SENSOR;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0030126593     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.491396     Document Type: Article

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