Birefringence dispersion in a quartz crystal retrieved from a channeled spectrum resolved by a fiber-optic spectrometer

✍ Scribed by Petr Hlubina; Dalibor Ciprian

• Book ID: 103874918
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 459 KB
• Volume: 284
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0030-4018
• DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2011.02.041

✦ Synopsis

We present a simple method for measuring the wavelength dependence of both the phase and group birefringences in a quartz crystal of known thickness. The method utilizes interference of polarized waves resolved by a fiber-optic spectrometer as a channeled spectrum (spectral fringes). The fringe order versus the precise position of the interference maximum in the spectrum is fitted to the approximate function, from which the phase birefringence as a function of wavelength is retrieved. We also determine the group birefringence dispersion. The functions measured in a range from 500 to 900 nm are compared with those resulting from the available dispersion relation, and very good agreement is confirmed.