Highly birefringent lamellar core fiber

doi:10.1364/OPEX.13.005988

Optics Express

Editor: Michael Duncan
Vol. 13, Iss. 16 — Aug. 8, 2005
pp: 5988–5993

Highly birefringent lamellar core fiber

A. Wang, A. George, J. Liu, and J. Knight »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 13, Issue 16, pp. 5988-5993 (2005)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OPEX.13.005988

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Abstract

We report a polarization-maintaining fiber in which the birefringence is due to artificially introduced anisotropy in the core material. The beat length was measured by direct observation at three different wavelengths, giving a shortest result of 85 µm at a wavelength of 543 nm. The measured phase-index birefringence is about one third of that expected, which is explained by diffusion between the core layers, which are each less than 200 nm thick. By taking account of this diffusion, we can accurately model the experimental beat length and differential group delay over a wide wavelength range.

OCIS Codes
(060.2280) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber design and fabrication
(060.2400) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber properties
(060.2420) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fibers, polarization-maintaining

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Research Papers

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Original Manuscript: July 8, 2005
Revised Manuscript: July 22, 2005
Published: August 8, 2005

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A. Wang, A. George, J. Liu, and J. Knight, "Highly birefringent lamellar core fiber," Opt. Express 13, 5988-5993 (2005)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-13-16-5988

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Appl. Opt.

M. D. Feit and J. A. Fleck, �??Light propagation in graded-index optical fibers,�?? Appl. Opt. 17, 3990-3997, (1978). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Electron. Lett.

T. Hosaka, K. Okamoto, T. Miya, Y. Sasaki, and T. Edahiro, �??Low-loss single polarisation fibers with asymmetrical strain birefringence,�?? Electron. Lett. 17, 530-531 (1981). [CrossRef]
M. P. Varnham, D. N. Payne, R. D. Birch, and E. J. Tarbox, �??Single-polarization operation of highly birefringent bow-tie optical fibers,�?? Electron. Lett. 19, 246-247 (1983). [CrossRef]
R. B. Dyott, J. R. Cozens, and D. G. Morris, �??Preservation of polarization in optical-fiber waveguides with elliptical cores,�?? Electron. Lett. 15, 380-382 (1979). [CrossRef]
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M.J. Gander, R. McBride, J.D.C. Jones, D. Mogilevtsev, T.A. Birks, J.C. Knight and P.St.J. Russell, "Experimental measurement of group velocity dispersion in photonic crystal fiber," Electron. Lett. 35, 63-64 (1999). [CrossRef]

IEEE J. Quantum Electron.

D. N. Payne, A. J. Barlow, and J. J. R. Hansen, �??Development of low- and high-birefringence optical fibers,�?? IEEE J. Quantum Electron. QE-18, 477-488 (1982). [CrossRef]

IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quant.

R. Scarmozzino, A. Gopinath, R. Pregla and S. Helfert, �??Numerical techniques for modeling guided-wave photonic devices,�?? IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quant. 6(1), 150-162 (2000). [CrossRef]

Opt. Lett.

F. Luan, A. K. George, T. D. Hedley, G. J. Pearce, D. M. Bird, J. C. Knight, P. St.J. Russell, �??All-solid photonic band gap fiber,�?? Opt. Lett. 29, 2369-2371 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

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D. Yevick, �??A guide to electric field propagation techniques for guided-wave optics,�?? Opt. Quantum Electron. 26 (3), S185-S197, (1994). [CrossRef]

Other

R. B. Dyott, Elliptical Fiber Waveguides (Artech House, Boston, London, 1995).
Max Born, Emil Wolf, Principles of Optics, sixth edition (Pergamon, Oxford, 1980), chap. 14.5.

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