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Polarization stable hollow core fiber interferometer with Faraday rotator mirrors

Polarization stable hollow core fiber interferometer with Faraday rotator mirrors
Polarization stable hollow core fiber interferometer with Faraday rotator mirrors

We report the fabrication of a hollow core fiber (HCF) coupled Faraday rotator mirror component with a total insertion loss below 1.1 dB and demonstrate its use in a polarization-stable all-fiber Michelson interferometer. The signal split into the two interferometer arms is performed using a standard 2 × 2 fused fiber coupler. One of the coupler output ports is permanently and directly connected to the HCF with a low return loss (below -40 dB) and negligible signal coupling into higher-order modes. The demonstrated polarization-insensitive interferometer shows residual peak-to-peak polarization-induced power variations as low as 0.04 dB. The device will be of interest in interferometric applications requiring low thermal sensitivity as the phase drift of light propagating through an HCF is over an order of magnitude less sensitive to temperature than in standard fiber. Moreover, the fiber nonlinearity is almost three orders of magnitude lower in HCFs as compared to standard solid optical fibers.

Hollow core fibers, Interference, Mirrors, Optical fiber couplers, Optical fiber polarization, Optical fibers, Optical interferometry, Sensitivity, fiber interferometers
1041-1135
1503-1506
Slavík, Radan
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Dousek, Daniel
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Suslov, Dmytro
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Komanec, Matej
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Zvanovec, Stanislav
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Poletti, Francesco
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Richardson, David J.
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Slavík, Radan
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Dousek, Daniel
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Suslov, Dmytro
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Komanec, Matej
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Zvanovec, Stanislav
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Poletti, Francesco
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Richardson, David J.
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Slavík, Radan, Dousek, Daniel, Suslov, Dmytro, Komanec, Matej, Zvanovec, Stanislav, Poletti, Francesco and Richardson, David J. (2021) Polarization stable hollow core fiber interferometer with Faraday rotator mirrors. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 33 (24), 1503-1506. (doi:10.1109/LPT.2021.3129591).

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Abstract

We report the fabrication of a hollow core fiber (HCF) coupled Faraday rotator mirror component with a total insertion loss below 1.1 dB and demonstrate its use in a polarization-stable all-fiber Michelson interferometer. The signal split into the two interferometer arms is performed using a standard 2 × 2 fused fiber coupler. One of the coupler output ports is permanently and directly connected to the HCF with a low return loss (below -40 dB) and negligible signal coupling into higher-order modes. The demonstrated polarization-insensitive interferometer shows residual peak-to-peak polarization-induced power variations as low as 0.04 dB. The device will be of interest in interferometric applications requiring low thermal sensitivity as the phase drift of light propagating through an HCF is over an order of magnitude less sensitive to temperature than in standard fiber. Moreover, the fiber nonlinearity is almost three orders of magnitude lower in HCFs as compared to standard solid optical fibers.

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Accepted/In Press date: 14 November 2021
e-pub ahead of print date: 19 November 2021
Published date: 15 December 2021
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © 1989-2012 IEEE.
Keywords: Hollow core fibers, Interference, Mirrors, Optical fiber couplers, Optical fiber polarization, Optical fibers, Optical interferometry, Sensitivity, fiber interferometers

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Local EPrints ID: 452848
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/452848
ISSN: 1041-1135
PURE UUID: b4dea5c5-c016-4b57-af6c-978f92e6458d
ORCID for Radan Slavík: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9336-4262
ORCID for Francesco Poletti: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1000-3083
ORCID for David J. Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058

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Date deposited: 21 Dec 2021 17:55
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 06:57

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Author: Radan Slavík ORCID iD
Author: Daniel Dousek
Author: Dmytro Suslov
Author: Matej Komanec
Author: Stanislav Zvanovec

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