• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 5, Issue 4, 194 (2007)
Yani Zhang1、2、3、*, Liyong Ren1、2、3, Kang Li2, Hanyi Wang2, Wei Zhao2, Lili Wang2, Runcai Miao2, Maryanne C. J. Large2, and Martijn A. van Eijkelenborg2
Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Physics, Baoji College of Arts and Science, Baoji 721007
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710068
  • 3Institute of Physics and Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062
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    Yani Zhang, Liyong Ren, Kang Li, Hanyi Wang, Wei Zhao, Lili Wang, Runcai Miao, Maryanne C. J. Large, Martijn A. van Eijkelenborg. Guiding mode in elliptical core microstructured polymer optical fiber[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2007, 5(4): 194 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A kind of microstructured polymer optical fiber with elliptical core has been fabricated by adopting in-situ chemical polymerization technology and the secondary sleeving draw-stretching technique. Microscope photography demonstrates the clear hole-structure retained in the fiber. Though the holes distortion is visible, initial laser experiment indicates that light can be strongly confined in the elliptical core region, and the mode field is split obviously and presents the multi-mode characteristic. Numerical modeling is carried out for the real fiber with the measured parameters, including the external diameter of 150 microns, the average holes diameter of 3.3 microns, and the average hole spacing of 6.3 microns by using full-vector plane wave method. The guided mode fields of the numerical simulation are consistent with the experiment result. This fiber shows the strong multi-mode and weak birefringence in the visible and near-infrared band, and has possibility for achieving the fiber mode convertors, mode selective couplers and so on.
    Yani Zhang, Liyong Ren, Kang Li, Hanyi Wang, Wei Zhao, Lili Wang, Runcai Miao, Maryanne C. J. Large, Martijn A. van Eijkelenborg. Guiding mode in elliptical core microstructured polymer optical fiber[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2007, 5(4): 194
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