Title :
Selective Excitation of Radially and Azimuthally Polarized Optical Fiber Cladding Modes
Author :
Alam, M.Z. ; Albert, J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Abstract :
The dominant polarization properties of the cladding modes excited by tilted fiber Bragg gratings are investigated. Even in conventional cylindrically symmetric fibers, by orienting the input core mode polarization with respect to the tilt plane of the grating cladding modes with near complete radial or azimuthal polarization can be excited at well separated wavelengths, as confirmed by experiments.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; optical fibre cladding; optical fibre polarisation; azimuthally polarized optical fiber cladding mode; cladding modes; cylindrically symmetric fiber; dominant polarization properties; grating cladding mode; radially polarized optical fiber cladding mode; selective excitation; tilted fiber bragg gratings; Bragg gratings; Color; Couplings; Equations; Gratings; Indexes; Mathematical model; Bragg gratings; fiber gratings; optical fiber sensors;
Journal_Title :
Lightwave Technology, Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JLT.2013.2280581
