Influence of Angular Orientation of the Embedded Highly Birefringent Fiber on Pmd Changes Under Axial Stress

Authors

Daniel Budaszewski Daniel Budaszewski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Piotr Lesiak, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Robert Plaga, Instytut Lotnictwa, Poland
Ginu Rajan, University of Wollongong, Australia
Yuliya Semenova, Technological University Dublin, IrelandFollow
Gerald Farrell, Technological University Dublin, IrelandFollow
Anna Boczkowska, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Andrzej W. Domanski's, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Tomasz R. Woliński, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Document Type

Article

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

Optics

Abstract

In the paper we present results of the research on polarization mode dispersion changes inside the polarimetric optical fiber sensors based on highly birefringent optical fibers embedded into composite materials with different angular orientations of the optical axes. Based on measurements made for different types of highly birefringent optical fiber sensors we have shown that strain sensitivities after lamination process are different in comparison to the data obtained before lamination. Our results indicate that polarization mode dispersion in side-hole highly birefringent fibers under axial stress strongly depends on fiber orientation in the composite material suggesting that orientation of the polarization axes of the highly birefringent fiber can be responsible for behavior of the fiber inside the composite material.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.12693/APhysPolA.120.575

Recommended Citation

Budaszewski, D., Lesiak, P. & Plaga, R. (2011). Influence of Angular Orientation of the Embedded Highly Birefringent Fiber on PMD Changes under Axial Stress. Acta Physica Polonica Series, vol. 120, no. 4. doi:10.12693/APhysPolA.120.575