1984-05-25
1988-03-08
Lee, John
350 9630, G02B 626
Patent
active
047296208
ABSTRACT:
This invention relates to fiber optic frequency shifters for producing optical signals of a desired frequency range for input to a device such as an optical rotation sensing system. The rotating birefringence is created in a length of fiber optic material, which has the effect of a rotating half-wave plate upon an input optical signal. The length of fiber optic material may have a jacket of either an electrostrictive or a magnetostrictive material formed thereon such that application of an appropriate field to the jacket compresses the enclosed fiber to induce birefringence therein by means of the photoelastic effect. A half-coupler having a block of electro-optically active birefringent material adjacent the interaction region combined with an electrode configuration and circuitry for producing a rotatiing electric field in the block also produces a rotating half-wave plate frequency shifter. The evanescent field of light propagating in the optical fiber interacts with the rotating birefringence and experiences a frequency shift. The invention also includes feedback circuitry for processing the optical output of fiber optic rotating half-wave plates to maintain the intensity of components in the output signal having the carrier frequency below a threshold value.
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Gonzalez Frank
Lee John
Litton Systems Inc.
Lynn John H.
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