Control of thermal effects with a Poincare sphere model and experimental validation on a polarimetric angular displacement sensor using telecom optical fiber as transducer

Eric Gaumont; Ayoub Chakari; Patrick Meyrueis; Michel Clement

doi:10.1117/12.318207

13 August 1998 Control of thermal effects with a Poincare sphere model and experimental validation on a polarimetric angular displacement sensor using telecom optical fiber as transducer

Eric Gaumont, Ayoub Chakari, Patrick Meyrueis, Michel Clement

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Proceedings Volume 3555, Optical and Fiber Optic Sensor Systems; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.318207
Event: Photonics China '98, 1998, Beijing, China

Abstract

The effects of a (Delta) T equals 300 K thermal perturbation is modelized theoretically in the case of a telecom singlemode optic fiber that we use as a transducer in an angular displacement polarimetric sensor. This model allows to optimize the fiber's spatial path and to select the light input polarization and the wavelength (lambda) in order to minimize the thermal modulation of the sensor signal. Therefore, the angular calibration error with (Delta) T equals 300 K will stay below 0.1 degrees with a 90 degree measurement range. We present two series of experiments where the wavelength is respectively (lambda) ₁ equals 1300 nm and (lambda) ₂ equals 780 nm. In the first case, we apply a thermal perturbation (Delta) T equals (293 K; 453 K). We observe a sensor signal fitting the one of the simulation, showing that experimental conditions are similar to the model ones. In the second case, (Delta) T equals (293 K; 213 K), we measure a greater thermal modulation of the sensors signal than the simulation one. This linear birefringence is due to the fiber's gluing on its substrate and to the fiber's mechanical homogeneity in the bent parts. These stresses will be minimized by adapted gluing and substrate materials and optic fiber's design selection.

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Eric Gaumont, Ayoub Chakari, Patrick Meyrueis, and Michel Clement "Control of thermal effects with a Poincare sphere model and experimental validation on a polarimetric angular displacement sensor using telecom optical fiber as transducer", Proc. SPIE 3555, Optical and Fiber Optic Sensor Systems, (13 August 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.318207

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