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  • Editor: C. Martijn de Sterke
  • Vol. 17, Iss. 16 — Aug. 3, 2009
  • pp: 14053–15062

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THz porous fibers: design, fabrication and experimental characterization

Shaghik Atakaramians, Shahraam Afshar V., Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Michael Nagel, Bernd M. Fischer, Derek Abbott, and Tanya M. Monro  »View Author Affiliations


Optics Express, Vol. 17, Issue 16, pp. 14053-15062 (2009)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.014053


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Abstract

Porous fibers have been identified as a means of achieving low losses, low dispersion and high birefringence among THz polymer fibers. By exploiting optical fiber fabrication techniques, two types of THz polymer porous fibers—spider-web and rectangular porous fibers— with 57% and 65% porosity have been fabricated. The effective refractive index measured by terahertz time domain spectroscopy shows a good agreement between the theoretical and experimental results indicating a lower dispersion for THz porous fiber compared to THz microwires. A birefringence of 0.012 at 0.65 THz is also reported for rectangular porous fiber.

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OCIS Codes
(060.2280) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber design and fabrication
(230.7370) Optical devices : Waveguides
(260.1440) Physical optics : Birefringence
(260.2030) Physical optics : Dispersion
(260.3090) Physical optics : Infrared, far

ToC Category:
Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

History
Original Manuscript: June 1, 2009
Revised Manuscript: July 24, 2009
Manuscript Accepted: July 24, 2009
Published: July 29, 2009

Citation
Shaghik Atakaramians, Shahraam Afshar V., Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Michael Nagel, Bernd M. Fischer, Derek Abbott, and Tanya M. Monro, "THz porous fibers: design, fabrication and experimental characterization," Opt. Express 17, 14053-15062 (2009)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-16-14053


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