Title :
Highly birefringent lamellar core fiber
Author :
Wang, A. ; George, A.K. ; Liu, J.F. ; Knight, J.C. ; Russell, P. St J
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Bath Univ., UK
Abstract :
We report a polarisation-maintaining fiber in which the birefringence is due to artificially introduced anisotropy in the core material. We measured a beat length as short as 85 μm at 543 nm wavelength.
Keywords :
birefringence; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; 543 nm; 85 mum; artificially introduced anisotropy; birefringence; highly birefringent fiber; lamellar core fiber; polarisation-maintaining fiber;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
