Novel 3-axis optical fiber alignment system

S. Salinas-Almaguer; Candelario Guajardo-Gonzalez; Francisco Betancourt-Ibarra; Carlos Martinez-Hernandez; Romeo Selvas

doi:10.1117/12.869390

14 October 2010 Novel 3-axis optical fiber alignment system

S. Salinas-Almaguer, Candelario Guajardo-Gonzalez, Francisco Betancourt-Ibarra, Carlos Martinez-Hernandez, Romeo Selvas

Proceedings Volume 7839, 2nd Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications (WSOF-2); 783926 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.869390
Event: Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications (WSOF-10), 2010, Oaxaca, Mexico

Abstract

This paper presents a 3-Axis enhanced alignment system for optical fiber. The arrangement uses in one of its axis a vision recognition system which employs Canny edge detector and Phase correlation. The other two-axis are aligned by controlling a couple stepper motors through displacement algorithms. The setup uses a commercial multimodal transmitter and receiver, multimode fiber, a digital microscope, three stepping motors and software. This automatic system takes an alignment time of 20 seconds and up to 70% of coupling power efficiency.

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S. Salinas-Almaguer, Candelario Guajardo-Gonzalez, Francisco Betancourt-Ibarra, Carlos Martinez-Hernandez, and Romeo Selvas "Novel 3-axis optical fiber alignment system", Proc. SPIE 7839, 2nd Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications (WSOF-2), 783926 (14 October 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.869390

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