Panda-style fibers move beyond telecom: Advances in design and fabrication techniques have brought Panda-style polarization-maintaining fibers into use in fiberoptic gyroscopes, as well as in linearly polarized fiber lasers

摘要

Despite being a technology more than 20 years old, Panda-style polarization-maintaining (PM) fibers are undergoing a new lease on life. (Panda stands for polarization-maintaining and absorption-reducing.)