• Chinese Journal of Quantum Electronics
  • Vol. 39, Issue 4, 651 (2022)
Zhengxiong ZHANG*, Wu CHEN, Liang TONG, Wenwen DAI, Shaoqing LIU, Ziqi ZHENG, Shanshan YE, Yangyang WANG, Wenhui JIANG, and Weiqing GAO
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    DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1007-5461. 2022.04.021 Cite this Article
    ZHANG Zhengxiong, CHEN Wu, TONG Liang, DAI Wenwen, LIU Shaoqing, ZHENG Ziqi, YE Shanshan, WANG Yangyang, JIANG Wenhui, GAO Weiqing. Analysis on birefringence characteristics of polarization-maintaining negative curvature fiber[J]. Chinese Journal of Quantum Electronics, 2022, 39(4): 651 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A kind of hollow-core negative curvature fiber (HC-NCF) with polarization filtering and polarization maintaining characteristics is designed, and its characteristics are analyzed. By introducing an inner cladding ring to break the symmetry of the conventional negative curvature fiber, the fundamental mode and the inner cladding glass mode in two orthogonal directions are coupled, which increases the birefringence and loss ratio in the two polarization directions. Then the influence factors of fiber birefringence characteristics and loss are analyzed, including the wall thickness, the inner diameter of the inner cladding tube, and the core diameter. The results show that when the fiber core diameter and the inner diameter of the outer cladding tube ring are 30 μm, the wall thickness of the outer cladding and inner cladding tube ring are 1.116 μm and 1.56 μm, respectively, and the inner diameter of the inner cladding tube ring is 9 μm, the birefringence at 1.55 μm reaches 1.33×10-4, the polarization extinction ratio in the x polarization and y polarization directions ofthe fundamental mode reaches 4723 (36.7 dB), and the bandwidth with polarization extinction ratio greater than 100 is 7 nm. In addition, the minimum loss at 1.55 μm is as low as 0.03 dB/m. It is shown that this kind of polarization maintaining negative curvature fiber can be used in fiber devices that are sensitive to polarization.
    ZHANG Zhengxiong, CHEN Wu, TONG Liang, DAI Wenwen, LIU Shaoqing, ZHENG Ziqi, YE Shanshan, WANG Yangyang, JIANG Wenhui, GAO Weiqing. Analysis on birefringence characteristics of polarization-maintaining negative curvature fiber[J]. Chinese Journal of Quantum Electronics, 2022, 39(4): 651
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