Title :
Highly birefringent multicore optical fibers
Author :
Stone, James M. ; Fei Yu ; Knight, Jonathan C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Bath, Bath, UK
Abstract :
We report on the fabrication and characterization of two polarization maintaining multicore fibres, one with three and the other with ninety eight cores. The beat length and polarization orientation are characterized.
Keywords :
optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre polarisation; beat length; highly birefringent multicore optical fibers; optical fibre fabrication; polarization orientation; polarization-maintaining multicore fibres; Multicore processing; Optical device fabrication; Optical imaging; Optical polarization; Optical scattering; Silicon compounds; Stress;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
