ZHANG Wei, WANG Le-feng, RONG Wei-bin etc. Coaxial adjustment in PMF alignments[J]. Editorial Office of Optics and Precision Engineering, 2014,22(1): 125-131
ZHANG Wei, WANG Le-feng, RONG Wei-bin etc. Coaxial adjustment in PMF alignments[J]. Editorial Office of Optics and Precision Engineering, 2014,22(1): 125-131 DOI: 10.3788/OPE.20142201.0125.
When polarization axes of Polarization Maintaining Fibers (PMF) are detected by micro-vision methods in PMF alignment
the rotation axes of fibers must be in the focal plane of the microscope. Therefore
a coaxial adjustment system was designed to adjust the relative position of the fiber to a motorized rotation stage. The distance between the fiber core and the center of rotation stage was detected by the micro-vision and the precise motion of motorized linear stage
and then
based on the image information
the two-dimensional manual linear stages were used to perform the adjustment. After the adjustment
the coaxial error was computed theoretically.Based on the micro-vision
an adjustment system was designed for the experiments.The Cartesian coordinate system was established by taking the center of the motorized rotary stage as the origin. Then
the equation of the straight line of the fiber center and its intercept were obtained by image processing and the least square method
further the distance between fiber center and rotary stage was determined. Moreover
the gray-scale difference function based on image threshold was taken as a sharpness function
and the influence of white noise was effectively eliminated. Experimental results show that the coaxial error between the fiber and the rotary stage is 3 μm after adjustment
which proves that the system can be applied to the detection of the optical fiber polarization axis.
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