Elimination of polarization degeneracy in round waveguides

doi:10.1364/OE.10.001342

Optics Express

Editor: Michael Duncan
Vol. 10, Iss. 23 — Nov. 18, 2002
pp: 1342–1346

Elimination of polarization degeneracy in round waveguides

Ian Bassett and Alexander Argyros »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 10, Issue 23, pp. 1342-1346 (2002)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.10.001342

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Abstract

We show how to design a round optical fiber so that it is effectively single moded, with no polarization degeneracy. Such fibers would be free from the consequences of polarization degeneracy or near degeneracy – phenomena such as polarization fading in interferometry, and polarization mode dispersion – and so may offer an alternative to polarization maintaining fibers for the avoidance of these phenomena. The design presented builds on an earlier observation of polarization selective refection in Bragg fibers.

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OCIS Codes
(060.2280) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber design and fabrication
(060.2400) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber properties
(060.2430) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fibers, single-mode
(260.5430) Physical optics : Polarization

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Original Manuscript: October 11, 2002
Revised Manuscript: November 5, 2002
Published: November 18, 2002

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Ian Bassett and Alexander Argyros, "Elimination of polarization degeneracy in round waveguides," Opt. Express 10, 1342-1346 (2002)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-10-23-1342

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A. Argyros, I. M. Bassett, M. A. van Eijkelenborg, M. C.J. Large, J. Zagari, N. A. P. Nicorovici, R. C. McPhedran and C. M. de Sterke, �??Ring structures in microstructured polymer optical fibres,�?? Opt. Express 9, 813 (2001), <a href="http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-9-13-813">http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-9-13-813</a>. [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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[1] E. Yablonovitch, �??Inhibited spontaneous emission in solid-state physics and electronics,�?? Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 2059 (1987). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[2] S. John, �??Strong localization of photons in certain disordered dielectric superlattices,�?? Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 2486 (1987). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[3] P. Yeh, A. Yariv, and E. Marom, �??Theory of Bragg fiber,�?? J. Opt. Soc. Am. 68, 1196 (1978). [CrossRef]

[4] A. W. Snyder and J. D. Love, Optical Waveguide Theory (Chapman and Hall, 1983).

[5] C. M. de Sterke, I. M. Bassett and A. G. Street, �??Differential losses in Bragg fibres,�?? J. Appl. Phys. 76, 680 (1994). [CrossRef]

[6] A. Ferrando and J. J. Miret, �??Single-polarization single-mode intraband guidance in supersquare photonic crystals fibers,�?? Appl. Phys. Lett. 78, 3184-3186 (2001). [CrossRef]

[7] W. C. Chew, Waves and fields in inhomogeneous media, Chapter 3 (Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1990).

[8] A. Argyros, I. M. Bassett, M. A. van Eijkelenborg, M. C.J. Large, J. Zagari, N. A. P. Nicorovici, R. C. McPhedran and C. M. de Sterke, �??Ring structures in microstructured polymer optical fibres,�?? Opt. Express 9, 813 (2001), <a href="http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-9-13-813">http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-9-13-813</a>. [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[9] M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics, Chapter 1.6 (Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1980).

[10] S. G. Johnson et al., �??Low-loss asymptotically single-mode propagation in large-core Omniguide fibers,�?? Opt. Express 9, 748-779, (2001), <a href="http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-9-13-748">http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-9-13-748</a>. [CrossRef] [PubMed]

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