Numerical Simulation of a Reflective Diffraction Fiber Interferometer
V. S. Terent'ev
Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
terentyev@iae.nsk.su
Keywords: reflective multibeam interferometer, optical fiber, cladding modes
Pages: 41-54
Abstract
Numerical simulation was used to demonstrate the possibility of designing a two-mirror multibeam reflective diffraction interferometer using a single-mode fiber with a cladding. The method is based on the calculation of the multimode and multibeam interference of the cladding modes in the fiber describing the diffraction on a diffuser made in the form of an insert of a different fiber as part of one of the interferometer mirrors. It is shown based on bulk optics that using certain optimization, one can obtain a reflection-response function profile of this interferometer similar to that of the transmission-response function of a Fabry-Perot interferometer.
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