Beschreibung:
This monograph is devoted to the creation of a comprehensive formalism for quantitative description of polarized modes' linear interaction in modern single-mode optic fibers. The theory of random connections between polarized modes, developed in the monograph, allows calculations of the zero shift deviations for a fiber ring interferometer. The monograph addresses also the Sagnac effect and the Thomas precession.
1. Introduction2. Fiber ring interferometry based on the Sagnac effect 3. Development of the theory of a polarization modes linear interaction (random coupling) in a singlemode fiber lightguides4. Experimental investigation of a polarization modes random coupling in a single-mode fiber lightguides5. Fiber ring interferometers with a minimum configuration6. Fiber ring interferometers with an original configuration7. Geometrical phases in optics - Application of the Poincare sphere method for determination of a zero shift presence in a fiber ring interferometers8. Unstable, nonlinear and magnetic effects and methods of removal of its influence on a zero shift in a fiber ring interferometers9. Relativistic effects in optical and nonoptical ring interferometers 10. Conclusion