Investigation of spun fibers using high resolution reflectometry

M. Wegmüller; Lynda A. Cherbi-Bazi; Nicolas Gisin; X. Chen; M.-J. Li; Daniel A. Nolan

doi:10.1109/ofc.2005.192586

Abstract

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Bi- and uni-directionally spun fibers are experimentally investigated with high-resolution reflectometric methods. Polarization beat-patterns reflecting both the strongly reduced global birefringence and the spin period can be extracted in agreement with theory.

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