Polarization maintaining (panda, bowtie) optical fiber birefringence/stress calculator
This is a calculator for calculating and plotting the stress and birefringence of a polarization maintaining optical fiber (panda or bowtie fibers). For detailed explanations, please see my blog post on the subject, at http://morethanfootnotes.blogspot.com/.
This is a Python program that uses the following modules: numpy, matplotlib, iniparse, six, and Tkinter (besides some other standard Python modules). The main program is pmfiberbiref.py.
(Last updated Jun 30, 2017)