Optical Fiber suits sensor and telecom applications.
Press Release Summary:
Single-mode SmartSpun features near-circular symmetry, which allows optimization of Faraday and Kerr effect-based devices and fiber-optic gyros, where slight rotation of polarization accumulates along fiber length to measurable value. Bragg gratings are polarization insensitive, despite birefringence induced during grating inscription process.
Original Press Release:
New SmartSpun Optical Fiber for Sensor and Telecom Applications
SmartSpun fiber is a single mode optical fiber with unique polarization properties. Its "near-circular" symmetry allows optimization of Faraday- and Kerr-effect-based devices (such as current and voltage fiber sensors) or fiber-optic gyros, where slight rotation of polarization accumulates along the fiber length to a measurable value. Also, telecom devices that employ these fibers acquire unique polarization properties: experiments shown SmartSpun fiber Bragg gratings to be polarization-insensitive despite the birefringence induced during grating inscription process.
