摘要:
There is provided an optical rotation measurement apparatus and a measuring system which are user-friendly, capable of measuring glucose concentration in drawn blood and living bodies with high accuracy in real time such that it is available for use at an actual medical site without depending on a reagent, and capable of measuring glucose concentration in a living body noninvasively with high accuracy, a new polarized light converting optical system that can be used for the measuring system, and an optical rotation measurement method using the optical system.The problems are resolved by inserting a non-reciprocal optical system sandwiching a specimen in an optical fiber ring interferometer, using input/output optical fibers of the non-reciprocal optical system, which are comprised of a large core diameter low NA single mode optical fiber, as an input/output part, connected via a mode-matching unit to a small core diameter and high NA polarization preserving fiber as a transmission part, and employing a defocused configuration without deploying the optical fiber ends at focal points of lenses.
摘要:
In the single polarization optical fiber of the present invention, an elliptical jacket is composed of SiO.sub.2 +P.sub.2 O.sub.5 +B.sub.2 O.sub.3, whereby increase in transmission loss at long wavelength band is prevented. In the process for fabricating single polarization optical fibers of the invention, a starting silica tube is subjected to pressure reduction with an amount of pressure reduction in response to concentration of dopants P.sub.2 O.sub.5 +B.sub.2 O.sub.3, whereby an ellipticity of the resulting elliptical jacket is made to be a pertinent value.
摘要:
The orientation of the rotating direction of an optical fiber in an optical fiber array takes the positional axial displacement into consideration. In a method of aligning the orientation of optical fibers, or the axial displacement in an optical fiber array having a plurality of optical fibers, and an optical fiber holding member, an enlarged image of the optical fiber is obtained for each of the optical fibers using an image pick-up means. Then, a distribution of the characterized image corresponding to the positions in the radial direction of the image of the optical fiber are obtained from the enlarged image. From the distribution of the characterized image, the orientation of the rotational direction to the center of the optical fiber, or the positional axial displacement of the core center, is measured. Based on the measured result, the orientation of the rotational direction, or the positional axial displacement to the holding member of the optical fiber, is aligned with an optical fiber rotating mechanism.
摘要:
A rotary joint for polarization plane maintaining optical fibers which can couple two polarization plane maintaining optical fibers to each other while maintaining the polarization plane maintaining property. The rotary joint comprises a rotary member, a fixed member, two optical fiber collimators and a 1/2 wavelength plate for coupling a polarization plane maintaining optical fiber connected to the rotary member with another polarization plane maintaining optical fiber connected to the fixed member, and gears for rotating the 1/2 wavelength plate at a speed equal to one half the rotational speed of the polarization plane maintaining optical fiber on the rotary member side.
摘要:
A single polarization optical fiber has an elliptical jacket composed of SiO.sub.2 +F.sub.2 O+P.sub.2 O.sub.5, whereby increase in transmission loss at a long wavelength band is prevented.
摘要翻译:单极化光纤具有由SiO 2 + F 2 O + P 2 O 5构成的椭圆形护套,能够防止长波长带的传输损失的增加。
摘要:
A method of producing an elliptic core type polarization-maintaining optical fiber comprises the steps of providing a glass rod comprising a cladding glass layer around the periphery of a core glass layer, the cladding glass layer having a softening point higher than the softening point of the core glass layer, removing two side surface portions of the glass rod by machining along the axial direction of the glass rod to form a machined rod noncircular in cross section, outside depositing fine silica glass particles on the periphery of the machined rod, followed by sintering to provide a support glass layer having a softening point higher than the softening point of the cladding glass layer, and drawing the thus obtained glass rod body as an optical fiber preform. Since the portion for constituting the core of the optical fiber is formed by machining, the core is permitted to have a high ellipticity. An optical fiber with the desired size and birefringence index is obtained by regulating the conditions of production.
摘要:
The fiber-optic rotation sensor comprises a sensing loop using an optical fiber which essentially performs a single polarization when bent, both end portions of the sensing loop being disposed with the principal axes of polarization thereof orthogonal to each other and the end portions being joined by an evanescent wave coupling to form a ring interferometer, a device for introducing to an input end of the interferometer a linearly polarized light at a bearing of 45.degree. relative to the principal axis of polarization of the interferometer, and a retardation measuring system provided at an output end of the interferometer for picking up an electrical output proportional to a rotational angular velocity applied to the interferometer. When the linearly-polarized light is introduced to the input end of the coupling portion of the ring interferometer at a bearing of 45.degree. with respect to the principal axis of polarization of the interferometer, the light is branched into two polarized light beams running through the sensing loop, one clockwise and the other counterclockwise. The polarized light beams are recombined with each other to be input to the retardation measuring system from which an electrical output proportional to the rotational angular velocity applied to the interferometer is picked up.
摘要:
A small-size optical rotation measuring device for detecting an organism, a tissue, blood, or molecules having rotatory power and determining the content thereof with high accuracy and an optical rotation measuring method for detecting an organism, a tissue, blood, or molecules having rotatory power and determining the content thereof with high accuracy. A nonreciprocal optical system is disposed in a loop optical path of a ring optical interferometer, and thereby light beams of circularly polarized modes orthogonal to each other are propagated in opposite directions through a sample to be measured. The wavelength of the light beams from a light source is in a wavelength region where the loss by the nonreciprocal optical element is low. A signal processing technique for phase-modulation optical fiber gyro having the highest resolution among ring interferometers is applied.
摘要:
In a single-polarization fiber optics magnetic sensor comprising a light source, a Faraday rotation element, a photodetector, and optical waveguide means for optically coupling them; according to a first embodiment, the optical waveguide means comprises upstream and downstream polarization-maintaining optical fibers coupled to the entrance and exit of the Faraday rotation element without a polarizer or an analyzer interposed therebetween; according to a second embodiment, in addition thereto, the axis of polarization of the downstream polarization-maintaining optical fiber is at an angle of about 45 degrees with respect to the orientation of the linearly polarized light exiting from the Faraday rotation element at a magnetic field intensity H equal to 0; and according to a third embodiment, in addition thereto, a polarization beam splitter is located in alignment with the orientation of polarization of the exit light from the downstream polarization-maintaining optical fiber, and two polarized light beams produced by said beam splitter are received by two photo-detectors for subsequent signal computation.