Dependence of visibility on input polarizsation in interferometric fiber-optic sensors
- 1 April 1988
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 13 (4) , 288-290
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.13.000288
Abstract
We present an analysis of the effects of input polarization on the output fringe visibility of two-beam interferometric fiber-optic sensors, which predicts the existence of interferometer input-polarization eigenmodes for which optimum visibility is obtained. Experimental results that verify this are also presented.Keywords
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