• Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves
  • Vol. 39, Issue 6, 696 (2020)
Ying HAN1、*, Zheng-Ran LI1, Wei-Zhen ZHU1, Peng SONG2, Fan-Di ZHOU1, Qi-Hao YANG1, Yan WANG1, Lin GONG1, Man YANG1, Wei WANG1, and Lan-Tian HOU1
Author Affiliations
  • 1The Key Laboratory for Special Fiber and Fiber Sensor of Hebei Province, Institute of Information Science and Technology, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao066004, China
  • 2School of Physics and Technology, University of Jinan, Jinan250022, China
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    DOI: 10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2020.06.006 Cite this Article
    Ying HAN, Zheng-Ran LI, Wei-Zhen ZHU, Peng SONG, Fan-Di ZHOU, Qi-Hao YANG, Yan WANG, Lin GONG, Man YANG, Wei WANG, Lan-Tian HOU. Polarization-maintaining hollow core negative curvature fiber with an operating wavelength of 2.94 μm[J]. Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, 2020, 39(6): 696 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A polarization-maintaining hollow-core negative curvature fiber is proposed, which can be used to transmit mid-infrared laser with an operating wavelength of 2.94 μm. By adjusting the thickness of the cladding tube in the y-direction and the maximum distance from the nested tube to the inner diameter of the cladding tube, the polarization mode in the y-direction is weakly coupled with the surface mode of the cladding tube. By optimizing the core diameter and the outer diameter of the cladding tube, the y-direction polarization mode is strongly coupled with the cladding tube surface mode, causing the y-direction polarization mode to leak out of the core. The gap between the cladding tubes guides the high-order mode to leak out of the core, while the x-direction polarization mode keeps the low confinement loss due to the coupling suppression effect of the thickness of the cladding tube and the nested tube. Finally, a polarization-maintaining hollow core negative curvature fiber with an operating wavelength of 2.94 μm is obtained. The confinement loss of the x-direction polarization mode is 2.8×10-2 dB/m, the polarization extinction ratio is greater than 2×103, the high-order mode rejection ratio is greater than 100, and the birefringence is1.4×10-5. When bending in the y direction with a radius of 25 cm, the bend loss is 0.62 dB/m.
    Ying HAN, Zheng-Ran LI, Wei-Zhen ZHU, Peng SONG, Fan-Di ZHOU, Qi-Hao YANG, Yan WANG, Lin GONG, Man YANG, Wei WANG, Lan-Tian HOU. Polarization-maintaining hollow core negative curvature fiber with an operating wavelength of 2.94 μm[J]. Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, 2020, 39(6): 696
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