Magnetic field rotating-type Faraday polarization controller.

Autor: T. Saitoh, S. Kinugawa
Zdroj: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters; Oct2003, Vol. 15 Issue 10, p1404-1406, 3p
Abstrakt: We developed a new polarization controller based on the Faraday effect. The transmittance fluctuation was suppressed to less than 0.03 dB by controlling the direction of a magnetic field with a magnitude exceeding the saturation field of Faraday elements. Because it has no mechanical parts, the new polarization controller can perform polarization control with high reproducibility and high-speed polarization control of better than 103 turns/s on a Poincare sphere. The new polarization controller has a rotatory polarization angle setting accuracy of ±5° and a reproducibility of ±0.3° on the Poincare sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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