Fiber Optic Collimator Polarization Maintenance

Polarization maintaining (PM) fiber optical collimator is used to launch a beam of light from an optical fiber into free space and then to capture that light and refocus it into the same or another fiber. 1 This animation provides an introduction to the mechanism of the FiberPort and shows how the FiberPort can be used as a collimator. For more information, please see the Alignment Procedure tab. Thorlabs' compact, ultrastable FiberPort micropositioners provide an easy-to-use platform for. Polarization-maintaining single- mode fibers (PM fibers) are rotation-ally non-symmetric because of inte-grated stress elements, for example, that break the degeneracy of the two principle states of polarization (SOP). Our Polaris ® Kinematic Collimators offer high-quality. [pdf]