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Removing left–right asymmetry in a Sagnac interferometer applied to cancel its reflectance dependence on birefringence

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We present a left–right symmetry restoring method, which removes the detrimental birefringence in the single-mode fiber Sagnac interferometer, achieved with the aid of a half waveplate oriented at a specific angle. We show theoretically and demonstrate experimentally that adding a π-shift between clockwise and counterclockwise propagating, horizontally (in fiber loop plane) polarized field components, the Sagnac loop mirror’s reflection becomes independent on birefringence of an element placed in the loop.

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