Title :
Highly-birefringent elliptical hollow optical fiber
Author :
Hwang, In-Kag ; Lee, Yong-Hee ; Oh, Kyunghwan ; Payne, David N.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon, South Korea
Abstract :
We propose and analyze a novel design of high birefringence fiber incorporating an elliptical air hole in the core. Compared to solid elliptical core fibers, several times higher birefringence is achieved with a sub-wavelength-sized hole.
Keywords :
birefringence; optical design techniques; optical fibre polarisation; highly-birefringent elliptical hollow optical fiber; subwavelength-sized hole;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
