A simple technique is presented for azimuthal alignment of the birefringent axes of a polarization maintaining fiber at a splicing point. Alignment accuracy better than ±0.01 is consistently obtained and is fairly independent of polarization cross coupling occurring in the fiber sections being spliced. The technique is particularly suitable for splicing birefringent fiber pigtails to laser diodes or integrated optics devices.
Birefringent-fiber splice alignment
Fiber Optic Sensors IV ; 1990 ; The Hague,Netherlands
Proc. SPIE ; 1267
1990-08-01
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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