Abstract:
A method of stabilizing the state of polarization of an optical radiation comprises: 1) applying sequentially to the optical radiation a first and a second controllable phase retardation; 2) detecting an optical power of at least a first polarized portion of the optical radiation obtained after step 1; 3) applying sequentially to the optical radiation obtained after step 1 a third and a fourth controllable phase retardation; 4) detecting an optical power of a further polarized portion of the optical radiation obtained after step 3; 5) controlling, responsive to the optical power of said first polarized portion, the second controllable phase retardation so as to maintain the polarization state of the optical radiation obtained after step 1 at a defined great circle r on a Poincare sphere; 6) in case the second controllable phase retardation reaches a first limit value, commuting the first controllable phase retardation between first and second values; 7) controlling, responsive to the optical power of said further polarized portion, the fourth controllable phase retardation so as to maintain the polarization state of the optical radiation obtained after step 3 at a defined state of polarization; 8) in case the fourth controllable phase retardation reaches a second limit value, commuting the third controllable phase retardation between third and fourth values, keeping constant the first controllable phase retardation while the third controllable phase retardation is commuting between said third and fourth values. A polarization stabilizing device based on the method above is also disclosed.
Abstract:
A filter for an optical fibre temperature sensor comprising at least one first and one second optical filter for filtering an optical pulse reflected by said optical fibre, characterised in that said at least one first and one second optical filter comprise standard commercial filters complying with ITU specifications, said optical pulse lying within the range from 1570 nm to 1580 nm.
Abstract:
It is described an optical communication system (1). The optical communication system (1) comprises an optical transmitter (2) and a substantially circular multi-mode optical fiber (40). The optical transmitter comprises a generator (10, 11, 20) of at least two free space circular vortices (CVSL1, CVSL2) and comprises an optical element (30) configured to receive the at least two free space circular vortices and to couple them to an input facet of the optical fiber. The optical fiber is configured to receive at the input facet the at least two free space circular vortices and is configured to generate therefrom at least two corresponding guided circular vortices (CVFR1, CVFR2) having respective propagation constants (β), wherein the values of the propagation constants at a defined frequency are different each other.
Abstract:
An optical fibre temperature sensor comprising: an optical pulse generator; an optical fibre into which said optical pulses are fed; an optical receiver to receive said optical pulses reflected by said optical fibre and to convert them into an electrical signal; a processor which receives said electrical signal and determines the temperature along said optical fibre; said optical receiver comprising a first filter and a second filter to filter said optical pulse reflected by said optical fibre, characterised in that said first and said second filters filter two adjacent portions of anti-Stokes optical signals or of Stokes optical signals
Abstract:
A device (100) and method for stabilizing the polarization of a polarization multiplexed optical radiation comprising an identified channel which is provided with a pilot signal. The device (100) and method are based on providing to the polarization multiplexed optical radiation a controllable polarization transformation; measuring the optical power of a polarized portion of the identified channel downstream the polarization transformation; controlling, responsively to said optical power, the controllable polarization transformation so that the identified channel downstream the polarization transformation has a predefined polarization azimuth; providing to the optical radiation downstream the polarization transformation a further controllable polarization transformation; measuring the optical power of a polarized portion of the identified channel downstream the further controllable polarization transformation; controlling, responsively to said optical power, the further controllable polarization transformation so that the identified channel downstream the further controllable polarization transformation has a predefined state of polarization (SOP our).
Abstract:
A polarization stabilizing device and method based on controlling the phase retardation (ø 1 , ø 2 ) of a pair of variable phase retarders (VR1, VR2) with a controller (CTRLR) such that the first of the variable retarders has its phase retardation switched between first and second values whenever the phase retardation of the second of the variable retarders reaches an upper or a lower limit. The upper and lower limits of the second retarder and the first and second values of the first retarder are chosen so that discontinuities in the power of the output optical signal are avoided when the first variable retarder is switched, thereby providing endless polarization stabilization using phase retarders that themselves have only limited retardation ranges.
Abstract:
A polarization stabilizer (1) for generating from an input optical signal of intensity (I) and polarization (A), an output signal having intensity and polarization substantially independent from the polarization (A), comprising: an input (3) for said input signal; a linear polarizer (6), optionally coupled to said input and having an orientation defined by an inherent axis (PP'), for selecting a portion of said input signal having linear polarization parallel to said inherent axis; an optical element (7) operatively coupled to said linear polarizer for converting said selected portion into said output signal having a circular polarization; an output (9) for said output signal; a control circuit (15) that, based on an electric signal related to the intensity of said output signal, controls the orientation of the linear polarizer.
Abstract:
Described herein is a multiplexer/demultiplexer optical device (100) comprising: a first beam-splitter cube (BS1); a second beam-splitter cube (BS2) optically coupled to the first splitter (BS1); a first Porro-prism reflector (PR1), which is optically coupled to the second splitter (BS2); and a second Porro-prism reflector (PR2), which is optically coupled to the second splitter (BS2) and is structured for introducing into optical beams that traverse it a phase delay depending upon an orbital angular momentum of the optical beams and upon an orientation of the second reflector. The device is a Michelson interferometer structured for obtaining constructive/destructive interference such as to multiplex/demultiplex on/from corresponding input/output ports, on the basis of values of orbital angular momentum, an optical beam comprising a plurality of concentric optical beams with cylindrical symmetry having different values of orbital angular momentum.
Abstract:
The present document relates to the field of optical access networks. In particular, the present document relates to an optical transmitter, in particular (but not exclusively) for a WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) passive optical network, and to a WDM PON comprising such an optical transmitter. An optical transmitter arrangement (7) is described. The arrangement (7) comprises a first mirror (41) and a second mirror (64) at a first end and a second end of a cavity, respectively; an optical amplifier (63) configured to amplify light polarized in a first polarization plane; wherein the optical amplifier (63) is positioned within the cavity upstream the first mirror (64); an optical waveguide (5-2) configured to transmit light from the optical amplifier (63) to the second mirror (41) and vice versa; a first non-reciprocal polarization rotator (82) positioned within the cavity upstream of the optical amplifier (63) and downstream of the optical waveguide (5-2); and a second non-reciprocal polarization rotator (81) positioned within the cavity upstream of the optical waveguide (5-2) and downstream of the first mirror (41); wherein the first (82) and second (81) non-reciprocal polarization rotators are configured to rotate the polarization of the light such that light which re-enters the optical amplifier (63) after having been reflected by the second mirror (41) is polarized in the first polarization plane.
Abstract:
An optical fibre temperature sensor comprising: an optical pulse generator; an optical fibre into which said optical pulses are fed; an optical receiver to receive said optical pulses reflected by said optical fibre and to convert them into an electrical signal; a processor which receives said electrical signal and determines the temperature along said optical fibre; said optical receiver comprising a first filter and a second filter to filter said optical pulse reflected by said optical fibre, characterised in that said first and said second filters filter two adjacent portions of anti-Stokes optical signals or of Stokes optical signals