Measurement of photo-induced birefringence in germanosilicate fibers

Abstract

In this paper, we report a novel method for accurately measuring the photo-induced birefringence of germanosilicate fibers by using an all fiber Mach–Zehnder interferometer. The results indicate that the photo-induced normalized birefringence of C₅98-302(s) germanosilicate fiber can attain 10^-5 and is multi-decaying-exponentially proportional to the UV exposure.

Keywords

Mach–Zehnder interferometer / germanosilicate fibers / photo-induced birefringence

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