Fiber-optic evanescent field modulator using a magnetic fluid as the cladding

Shengli Pu; Xianfeng Chen; Yuping Chen; Yonghao Xu; Weijun Liao; Lijun Chen; Yuxing Xia

doi:10.1063/1.2195016

Fiber-optic evanescent field modulator using a magnetic fluid as the cladding

Shengli Pu, Xianfeng Chen, Yuping Chen, Yonghao Xu, Weijun Liao, Lijun Chen, Yuxing Xia

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University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

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Abstract

A kind of fiber-optic modulation-depth-tunable modulator is developed in this paper. In this modulator, a magnetic fluid is used as the cladding of the drawn fiber, which attenuates the evanescent field when the light is guided in the fiber. Because the attenuation depends on the strength of the applied external magnetic field, the emergent light intensity from the fiber is modulated with the change of the magnetic field strength. The response times, i.e., the span for the light intensity to reach the final steady value from the time when the magnetic field is turned on or off, are evaluated quantitatively.

Original language	English
Article number	093516
Journal	Journal of Applied Physics
Volume	99
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2195016
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2006
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

Sensors gyros
Fiber-optic instruments
Optical processors correlators and modulators
Fabrication cladding and splicing
Magnetic liquids

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