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Investigation of Differential Induced Attenuation of Orthogonal Axes in Polarization Maintaining Fibers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

M. E. Gingerich ,
S. J. Hickey ,
C. C. Harrington ,
M. J. Marrone ,
E. J. Friebele ,
L. D. Looney  and
J. R. Onstott
M. E. Gingerich
Affiliation:
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375
S. J. Hickey
Affiliation:
SFA, Inc., Landover, MD 20785
C. C. Harrington
Affiliation:
SFA, Inc., Landover, MD 20785
M. J. Marrone
Affiliation:
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375
E. J. Friebele
Affiliation:
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375
L. D. Looney
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545
J. R. Onstott
Affiliation:
3M Center, St. Paul, MN 55144
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Abstract

Recent studies have indicated that the birefringent-inducing stress of polarization-maintaining (PM) fibers decreases the long term, permanent loss induced by ionizing radiation and that light polarized along the two orthogonal axes of PM fibers may be attenuated differently by exposure to irradiation sources. This paper reports the results of specific studies of this differential attenuation induced in a series of PM fibers by both steady state and transient irradiations. It has been found that the response to ionizing radiation depends on the materials properties of the fiber, i.e. the core and clad dopants and/or degree of stress, and that the magnitude of the differential attenuation is small relative to the total or one-axis incremental loss.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 172: Symposium P – Optical Fiber Materials and Processing , 1989 , 111
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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