Single-mode fiber optics in a long-baseline interferometer
Abstract
The potential for using single-mode fiber optics to link two or more telescopes in a large optical to near-IR astronomical interferometer was investigated. On an optical bench, the effects of dispersion, temperature, and birefringence on wide-bandwidth interference fringes were observed using up to 30 m of single-mode fiber in each arm of a Twyman-Green interferometer.
- Publication:
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Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- June 1987
- DOI:
- 10.1364/AO.26.002159
- Bibcode:
- 1987ApOpt..26.2159S
- Keywords:
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- Fiber Optics;
- Telescopes;
- Very Long Base Interferometry;
- Birefringence;
- Diffraction Patterns;
- Near Infrared Radiation;
- Polarization (Waves);
- Temperature Effects;
- Visible Spectrum;
- Wave Dispersion;
- Instrumentation and Photography