Abstract
Optical fibers are extensively used in modern technology such as sensing, short-distance and long-distance telecommunications. This motivated many researchers to present different methods in order to characterize optical fibers and determine their refractive index profiles. In addition, variation of refractive index profiles of optical fibers suffering mechanical stresses or other external effects reflects good information about the internal structure of these fibers and how they are responding to these external effects. Optical interferometry and digital holography methods are accurate and effective tools used to achieve this task. In this chapter, we illustrate the application of different types of optical interference on conventional, polarizing maintaining and thick optical fibers. Also, we illustrate some mathematical interpretations (and recently automatic analyzing of interference patterns) that have been used to reconstruct the accurate refractive index profiles of optical fibers. Some experimental interferograms and refractive index profiles are demonstrated as well.
Keywords
- optical fiber
- optical interferometry
- refractive index profile
- interferogram analyses
- digital holography
1. Introduction
1.1 Optical fibers
An optical fiber is an extended cylindrical optical waveguide. In its simplest form, it consists of a core having a certain refractive index
Optical fibers are involved in many technological applications such as telecommunications, sensing [4, 5]; fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers [6]; fiber gratings which can act as mirrors [7, 8]; mode converters [9]; modulators; and couplers and switches [10, 11]. Optical fibers are considered ideal optical transmission media since communication cables hundreds of kilometers in length can be obtained with low absorption and low loss due to the purity and cross-sectional uniformity of the manufactured optical fibers. Moreover, accurate tuning of the refractive indices of both core and clad guarantee extremely low scattering loss at the interfaces [1].
1.2 Types of optical fibers
The commonly known optical fibers are step index and graded index (GR-IN) optical fibers. The former means that the core’s refractive index is homogeneous while it suffers an abrupt change at the boundary with the clad. For a GR-IN optical fiber, the core does not have a constant value of refractive index but it rather has a radial distribution of refractive index. These two types of optical fibers can be classified into either single-mode or multi-mode optical fibers. Single-mode optical fiber only sustains one mode of propagation while the multi-mode optical fiber can sustain up to hundreds of propagation modes [1, 3]. The number of the propagation modes is related to the numerical aperture of the fiber, which, in turn, depends on the refractive indices of both core and clad.
1.3 Characterization of optical fibers
Accurate characterization of optical fibers is required in order to know about their functions and performances. There are many methods of optical fibers characterization such as optical microscopy, electron microscopy, X-ray spectrometry, infrared spectroscopy, light diffraction, light scattering, optical interferometry, and digital holography [1, 3, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29]. Optical interferometry is an effective accurate tool for studying and characterizing optical fibers. It depends on the determination of the phase difference between a ray of light transmitting the fiber’s cross-section and a reference ray reaching the interference plane directly without crossing the fiber. This phase shift can be transformed into a refractive index map representing the radial distribution of the refractive index across the fiber or, in other words, the refractive index profile (RIP). Interferometry can detect tiny changes in refractive index if an external effect is applied on the fiber. The change of refractive index can be in situ detected if the interferometer is developed to achieve this task. Interference patterns can be digitally processed and analyzed in order to increase the accuracy of the obtained results [1, 17, 22, 26, 27, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35].
Interference techniques can be classified into either two-beam interferometers such as Michelson, Mach-Zehnder, Pluta polarizing microscope, Lioyd’s mirror, etc., or multiple-beam interferometers such as Fabry-Pérot and Fizeau interferometers [1, 3, 25, 36, 37, 38, 39]. A two-beam interferometer produces a pattern of alternate bright and dark fringes of equal thicknesses when two beams, usually, of equal intensities
Multiple-beam interference takes place when light rays fall on two parallel optical plates enclosing a small distance between each other while their inner surfaces are highly reflecting and partially transparent. The intensities of both reflected,
where,
On the other hand, holography was firstly presented by Gabor in 1947 as a lens-less process for image formation by reconstruction of wave-fronts [41, 42, 43]. It offers 3D characterization such as the depth of field from recording and reconstructing the whole optical wave field, intensity, and phase [41, 42]. Holographic interferometry is a non-destructive, contactless tool that can be used for measuring shapes, deformations and refractive index distributions [44, 45]. The modern digital holography was introduced in 1994 [46, 47, 48]. Moreover, the phase shifting interferometric (PSI) technique was introduced by Hariharan et al. as an accurate method for measuring interference fringes in the real time [49]. Recently, digital holographic phase shifting interferometry (DHPSI) was used to investigate some optical parameters of fibrous materials [17, 18, 21, 26, 27, 28, 29].
1.4 Digital holographic phase shifting interferometry (DHPSI)
In DHPSI, frequently a set of four [20] or five [23, 33] phase shifted holograms with known mutual phase shifts starting with 00 and having 900 separations have to be recorded [21]. These recorded holograms can be represented by:
where
or,
In digital holography, the recorded wavefield is reconstructed, based on Fresnel diffraction integral, by multiplying the stored hologram by the complex conjugate of the reference wave
The parameters used in this formula depend on the used CCD array of
The convolution of
In addition, the phase shifted holograms are used to overcome the problems of the d.c. term and twin image, in which the calculated complex wavefield is used instead of a real hologram in the convolution approach.
The intensity and phase distributions in the reconstruction plane are given by
So, the optical phase differences due to phase objects can be extracted.
Mach-Zehnder interference-like system is used as a digital holographic setup as shown in Figure 2 [20, 23, 29, 33]. The optical waveguide sample, such as optical fiber, is immersed in a liquid of refractive index
In this chapter, we illustrate some featured work on interferometric characterization (sometimes, implying digital holographic interferometry) of different optical fibers done by our research group during the last three decades. In Section 2, interferometric characterization of conventional step-index and GR-IN optical fibers is presented. Section 3 illustrates characterization of the conventional optical fibers when they are suffering mechanical bending. In Section 4, interferometric characterization of a special type of optical fibers called polarization maintaining (PM) optical fibers is presented. In the last section, we elucidate thick optical fibers and their interferometric characterization with a special interferometric system, developed in our laboratory, called lens-fiber interferometry (LFI).
2. Conventional optical fibers
2.1 Step-index optical fiber
In 1994, Hamza et al. derived a mathematical expression to calculate the RIP of an optical fiber by considering the refraction of optical rays at the liquid-clad and clad-core interfaces, see Figure 3 [12]. It was the first time to consider the refraction of the transmitted rays to reconstruct the RIP of a fiber. The derived expressions for calculating the RIP in case of two-beam and multiple-beam interferences, based on Figure 3, are given by Eqs. (12) and (13), respectively.
where,
In that work, they used Fizeau interferometer to determine the refractive index profile of FOS Ge-doped step-index multi-mode optical fiber with a core radius 19.5 μm. The fiber was immersed in a liquid of refractive index
In 2008, another mathematical model was derived in order to determine RIPs of fibers having regular and/or irregular cross-sections [38]. This method was based on immersing the investigated fiber in two liquids with different, but so closed, refractive indices. They applied this method on a single-mode optical fiber, having a small core of radius <5 μm while the fiber’s radius was 60.6 μm, as shown by Fizeau interferograms in Figure 5 when the fiber was immersed in two liquids with refractive indices (a) 1.4589 and (b) 1.4574. The obtained RIP of this fiber is illustrated in Figure 5c showing that this fiber has
2.2 Graded-index (GR-IN) optical fiber
A GR-IN optical fiber with a radial refractive index distribution was suggested to be divided into a finite number (
According to Figure 6b, the optical pathlengths of the ray crossing the core
where,
However, the former requires knowing the function describing the index profile while the aim is to find the parameters of this function.
3. Bent conventional optical fibers
Optical fibers, which are isotropic materials, can suffer a birefringence under external mechanical bending effects [1, 22, 33, 51]. The induced birefringence can be used in sensing applications [52, 53, 54]. However, bending has an unfavorable effect on the optical fibers used in telecommunications where it, sometimes, causes a mode disturbance and consequently a signal attenuation [55, 56]. An approach to calculate the refractive index profile of a bent optical fiber was proposed where the fiber was divided into layers and slabs simultaneously [22]. The refraction of the optical rays at the liquid-clad and clad-core interfaces was considered. Unfortunately, this approach did not consider the change of refractive index inside each slab. Also, the expected change of refractive index due to the release of stresses near the fiber’s free surface has not been considered. However, this approach succeeded to present good information about the variation of mode propagation due to bending.
3.1 Step-index bent conventional optical fiber
In 2014, Ramadan et al. calculated the refractive index and the induced birefringence profiles of bent step-index optical fibers using digital holographic Mach-Zehnder interferometer [33]. In that work, they considered two different processes controlling the variations of the refractive index of the bent fiber: (1) the linear refractive index variation due to the applied stress along the bent radius and (2) the release of this stress on the fiber’s surface. The first one is dominant when approaching the center of the fiber while the second one is dominant near the fiber’s free surface and decays on moving toward the fiber’s center. Figure 9 shows the difference between the paths of optical rays through the bent fiber in the compressed and expanded parts. The stress release was supposed to have a radial dependence on the fiber’s radius, which enabled the construction of 2D RIP of the investigated bent homogeneous optical fiber. Based on the expected stress values due to the bending effect, a function describing the RIP was proposed and used to integrate the optical path of the ray traversing the fiber [50]. By adapting the appropriate parameters of this function, the optical phase differences were estimated and matched those phase differences that were experimentally obtained. By this assumption, a realistic induced stress profile due to bending was obtained [33]. DHPSI was used in that study where the recorded phase shifted holograms were combined and processed to extract the phase map of the fiber [18]. By considering both of the mentioned effects, the following function was chosen to describe the RIP of the bent optical fiber [33].
where
The first term of Eq. (18) gives the bent-induced birefringence,
which is correlated to the generated stress
Eq. (20) evaluates the distribution of stress over the fiber’s cross-section for different bending radii where
Since bending such a step-index optical fiber converts it into a weekly graded-index fiber, Bouguer’s formula [40] was used to correlate the radius, incidence angles, and refractive index of the bent fiber as follows:
where
This equation was numerically solved to get
By integration with respect to
The optical path length difference between this ray, passed through the fiber, and the reference ray passed through the liquid is:
The phase difference is given as:
Figure 10 shows a set of five shifted holograms of a bent step-index optical fiber with a bending radius
3.2 Graded-index bent conventional optical fiber
In 2017, Ramadan et al. presented a theory to recover the RIP of a bent GR-IN optical fiber inside the core region using DHPSI [35]. They assumed the two different processes controlling the shape of the RIP: (1) the linear variation due to stresses in the direction of the bent radius and (2) the release of the stresses near the fiber’s surface.
The total optical path length of the optical ray crossing the bent GR-IN optical fiber is given by Eq. (27), see Figure 13. The calculated optical path length differences of the interfered rays can be transformed, afterward, into a phase difference map using Eq. (26).
with,
Figure 14a shows a set of five phase shifted interferograms for the bent GR-IN optical fiber with bending radius
4. Polarization maintaining (PM) optical fibers
A PM fiber is any fiber that preserves and transmits the polarization state of the light launched into the fiber even if this fiber is subjected to environmental perturbations [57]. This advantage cannot be verified by conventional single-mode optical fibers outside the laboratory conditions. A PM fiber is tailored to oblige the two orthogonally polarized modes traveling with different velocities (i.e., different propagation constants). This difference in velocities prevents the optical energy from suffering a “cross-coupling” and preserves the polarization state of the transmitted light. Therefore, a PM fiber used in any application requires delivering a polarized light such as in telecommunications, medical applications, and sensing. In interferometric applications, it is used to affirm that the interfered rays have the same polarization states. To maintain such a difference of velocities, the core of the fiber has to be anisotropic either geometrically by making the core cross-section as an ellipse or by applying a uniaxial stress. The most known PM fibers used today are, PANDA, bow tie, and elliptical-jacket fibers. These types are designed by the same way where the cores are flanked by areas of high-expansion glass and shrunk-back more than the surrounding silica then the core is frozen under tension. The birefringence is induced due to this tension, which means creation of two different indices of refraction: a higher index in the direction parallel to the applied stress and a lower index perpendicular to the direction of the applied stress. In the next two subsections, we briefly illustrate both the manufacturing process and interferometric characterization of PANDA and bow tie PM optical fibers.
4.1 Panda optical fiber
PANDA PM optical fiber is preferable in telecommunications [57, 58]. It is modified by insertion of stress rods to provide PM properties according to the procedure described in Figure 16. In this process, two holes are ultrasonically drilled along a single-mode optical fiber; then, the stress rods are inserted in these two holes and the fiber is finally drawn [57]. In 2014, Wahba used the off-axis DHPSI to reconstruct the 3D RIP of a PM PANDA optical fiber [23]. The multilayer model was used to calculate the RIP of this fiber in the directions of fast and slow axes. By rotating the PANDA fiber, different interferograms were recorded and analyzed in order to reconstrut the 3D RIP of this fiber, see Figure 17. The reconstructed 3D RIPs of PANDA fiber are shown in Figure 18 when the incident light was vibrating in the direction of (a) fast axis and (b) slow axis.
4.2 Bow tie optical fiber
A bow tie optical fiber is fabricated on a lathe using the inside vapor-phase oxidation (IVPO) via the process called gas-phase etching to create the required stress [57]. This process is summarized in Figure 19 where a ring of boron-doped silica is purely deposited of boron tribromide in combination with silicon tetrachloride. The rotation of the lathe stopped when a sufficiently thick layer was formed to allow two diametrically opposed sections to be etched away. The final shape of the bow tie and stress levels are controlled by varying the arc through which the etching burner is rotated. Recently, Ramadan et al. estimated the optical phase variations of optical rays traversing a PM optical fiber from its cross-section images [59]. They proposed an algorithm to recognize the different areas of the fiber’s cross-section, which was immersed in a matching liquid and investigated by Mach-Zehnder interferometer.
These areas were scanned to calculate the optical paths for certain values of refractive indices and the optical phases across the PM optical fiber were recovered. The experimental interferograms of the bow tie PM optical fiber, shown in Figure 20, were analyzed to extract their optical phase distributions and compare them with the optimized estimated optical phase maps, see Figure 21. This was a direct and accurate method to get information about refractive index, birefringence, and the beat length of a PM optical fiber.
5. Homogeneous thick optical fibers
Optical fibers having diameters in the order of 100 μm, or less, are convenient to be investigated using interferometric methods when the samples are put in immersion liquids of refractive indices close to the refractive indices of the fibers as described in the previous sections [12, 13]. Optical fibers of diameters bigger than 150 μm cannot be investigated by normal interferometry where the planes of fringes in both liquid and fiber cannot be focused simultaneously. In 2000, Ramadan presented a novel interferometric method to recover such a problem for homogeneous thick optical fibers, commonly used in short-distance data transmission, without using immersion liquids [16]. This type of interference was called lens-fiber interferometry (LFI) since the interference fringes were produced by a combination of an aberrated cylindrical lens and a thick optical fiber. The aberrated cylindrical lens was used to focus a parallel beam on this fiber, which was located in the focal plane of the cylindrical lens [60], see Figure 22.
Two-beam interference produced by the superposition of two optical rays emerging from the fiber was recorded and explained. Due to the aberration of the cylindrical lens, one of these two rays crossed the thick fiber before its center while the other ray crossed after the fiber?s center. Therefore, for each point in the image plane, two rays having two different initial incidence angles on the thick fiber are superposed, see Figure 23. The optical path length of each ray can be obtained by tracing this ray geometrically, as given by Eq. (30), which can be transformed into phase differences for the interfered rays using Eq. (31). The difference in the optical path lengths of each pair of interfered rays can be transformed into an intensity distribution describing the interference fringes using Eq. (32). On the other hand, the scattered rays from the outer surface of the fiber do not contribute in the interference because of the limited range of the incident rays on the fiber. This is in contrast with previous works done by Watkins [14, 15, 61]. By comparing the experimentally obtained interferograms with those reconstructed theoretically as shown in Figure 24, Ramadan was able to determine the refractive index of the investigated thick optical fiber. The advantage is that the used system requires no matching liquid where the experiment is performed when the thick fiber is just held in air. This enables monitoring the probable variation in radius or refractive index of the fiber particularly during the manufacturing process or under external effects.
where Δ(z1) and Δ(z2) are the optical path lengths of the two interfered rays. In 2004, Hamza et al. developed LFI technique in order to determine the refractive index of the core of a skin-core thick optical fiber [60]. They derived a mathematical expression for the optical paths through the fiber in order to reconstruct the interfernce pattern due to the used fiber when it is used as a thick fiber in the LFI system. By comparing the experimentally obtained patterns with the theoretically reconstructed ones, they were able to estimate the core’s refractive index with an accuracy of 8 × 10−4. Due to its simplicity and applicability, LFI was used, afterward, to measure the refractive index of a liquid [62] and to monitor the thickness variations of a transparent sheet inserted between the cylindrical lens and the thick fiber [63].
6. Conclusions
This chapter is an attempt to highlight the interferometric techniques used for characterization of optical fibers. Application of two- and multiple-beam interference on different types of fibers is illustrated. Section 2 dealt with conventional optical fibers where we illustrated the theoretical models used to reconstruct the refractive index profiles of these fibers. In these models, the refraction of the light ray traversing the fiber has been considered. Digital holography was explained as an important candidate used for accurate retrieving of phase maps and consequently refractive index profiles of the fibers. In Section 3, we mentioned the problem of fiber bending. Recovering the refractive index profile and mode propagation of a bent fiber considering the refraction of the light rays traversing the fiber is a quite difficult task since bending-induced stresses are responsible for refractive index variations. Also, these stresses are released at the outer surface of the bent fiber. Therefore, we illustrated a successful model that was recently presented to recover the index profile in this case with experimental illustrative data. Another important type of optical fibers is the polarization maintaining optical fibers, which prevent cross-coupling by conserving the state of beam polarization during propagation. In Section 4, we presented interferometric techniques applied on two different polarization maintaining optical fibers, panda and bow tie, to reconstruct their refractive index profiles. Most interference techniques require immersing the fiber in a suitable liquid in order to minimize the phase difference between the fiber and its surrounding medium. In Section 5, an interference technique is presented and applied on a thick optical fiber to recover its refractive index without using an immersion liquid (i.e., in air), which makes the technique suitable for in-situ studying of thick fibers.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to acknowledge Prof. A. Hamza, the leader of optics research groups in Mansoura and Damietta Universities, and Prof. T. Sokkar for their continuous support and useful discussions. Also, many thanks to the Optics Research Group members in Damietta University for their useful suggestions and comments.
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