Robust and environmental insensitive fiber optic Sagnac interferometer for microwave photonic applications

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Abstract

A technique that allows a fiber optic Sagnac interferometer based microwave photonic device to be implementedusing non-polarization maintaining components inside the Sagnac loop while still obtaining an output that is insensitive to changes in environmental conditions is presented. It is based on inserting the non-polarization maintaining components in between a polarization beam combiner and a Faraday rotator mirror inside the loop. The technique also introduces a phase bias to the light propagating inside the loop. Experimental results demonstrate that the discretely and continuously tunable Sagnac loop based signal processors implemented using non-polarization maintaining components have an environmentally insensitive frequency response.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2075-2080
Number of pages6
JournalApplied Optics
Volume51
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes

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