Abstract

The incident polarization angle and temperature dependence of the polarization and spectral response characteristics of three different types of fiber coupler are presented. The couplers are (1) the biconical-fused-twisted-taper single-mode fiber (coupler A), (2) the asymmetric-etched-fused-taper wavelength division multiplex (coupler B), and (3) the biconical-polished polarization maintaining fiber (coupler C), respectively. It is confirmed experimentally that the polarization characteristics of couplers A and B vary greatly with temperature, but those of coupler C are independent of temperature. Also, the wavelength dependence characteristics of the power splitting ratio of couplers B and C have almost no change with temperature. However, the wavelength dependence of coupler A is greatly changed with temperature. Comparing couplers A and B, it is postulated that the sinusoidal variations of the polarization state vs the incident polarization angle are due to the stress birefringence caused by the fiber twisting when the fused fiber coupler is fabricated and packaged.

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