title: All-fiber acousto-optic polarization monitor.
abstract: We describe the operational principle of and experimentally demonstrate a narrowband, wavelength-tunable polarization monitor based on a fiber acousto-optic tunable filter. Two orthogonally vibrating acoustic waves are used to create a variable polarizer that can be used to measure the state of polarization of an incident narrowband light source. The accuracy of the polarization monitor is measured at two different wavelengths in reference to a commercial polarimeter and is shown to be within 5%.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Henry Samueli School of Engineering University of California, Irvine California 92697, USA. falhasse@uci.edu
authors.forename: Fares
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Alhassen
authors.forename: Matthew R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Boss
authors.forename: Rong
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Henry P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Pedram Z
authors.initials: PZ
authors.lastname: Dashti