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For polarization-maintaining (PM) optical fiber, assuming that the polarization direction of the input linearly polarized light is in the middle of the fast axis and the slow axis, it can be decomposed into two orthogonal polarization components. As shown in the figure below, the two light waves initially have the same phase, but because the refractive index of the slow axis is greater than that of the fast axis, their phase difference will increase linearly with the propagation distance.

In scenarios where fiber optic sensor networks monitor the structural health of bridges and medical OCT equipment captures micron-level retinal lesions, SLED broadband light sources, with their ultra-wide spectrum, low coherence, and high stability, have become core components supporting high-precision optical systems. As a special light source between laser diodes and light-emitting diodes, these devices, through their unique light-emitting mechanism and circuit design, provide irreplaceable optical solutions for industrial monitoring, biomedicine, and national defense research.

The 980/1550nm wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) is a key component of erbium-doped fiber lasers and amplifiers. 980/1550nm WDM is mostly made of single-mode fiber (SMF) and made by winding fusion tapering method. With the development of optical fiber communication and sensing technology and the successful development of polarization-maintaining fibers, PMF circulators and isolators, more and more systems use PMF and polarization-maintaining devices to package the polarization characteristics of the optical transmission in the subsystem.

An optical fiber sensor is a sensor that converts the state of the measured object into a measurable light signal. The working principle of the optical fiber sensor is to send the incident light beam from the light source into the modulator through the optical fiber. The interaction between the modulator and the external measured parameters determines the optical properties of the light, such as the intensity, wavelength, frequency, phase, polarization state, etc. It changes and becomes a modulated optical signal, which is then sent to the optoelectronic device through the optical fiber and passed through the demodulator to obtain the measured parameters. During the whole process, the light beam is introduced through the optical fiber, passes through the modulator, and then emitted. The role of the optical fiber is first to transmit the light beam, and secondly to act as an optical modulator.

People utilized this ASE process to make broadband ASE light source which is essential for many different telecommunications, fiber sensing, fiber optic gyroscope, and test & measurement applications.