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http://dx.doi.org/10.3807/KJOP.2012.23.4.135

Measurement of Refractive Index Profile of Optical Fiber Using the Diffraction Phase Microscope  

Jafar-Fard, Mohammad R. (Department of Physics, Yonsei University)
Moon, Sucbei (Department of Physics, Kookmin University)
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Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics / v.23, no.4, 2012 , pp. 135-142 More about this Journal
Abstract
We have developed a measurement method of the refractive index profile of an optical fiber by using diffraction phase microscopy. In the microscope system, the reference light was extracted directly from the probe light that passed through the sample by means of pinhole filtering with a diffraction grating. The spatial interference pattern produced by the probe light and the reference light was processed to generate the phase image of the sample fiber. The index profile was obtained by the inverse Abel transform of the phase profile. In order to remove the background phase that originated from the index difference between the cladding and the surrounding medium, the background phase was calculated from the phase data of the cladding to make a core phase profile that can be directly transformed to the index profile of the core without the full phase image that includes the entire cladding part.
Keywords
Optical fiber characterization; Refractive index profile; Quantitative phase microscopy; Abel transform;
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