A Single-Polarization Holey Fiber With Anisotropic Lattice of Circular Air Holes

Author

Ichikawa, Kazuki ; Zejun Zhang ; Tsuji, Yasuhide ; Eguchi, Masashi

Author_Institution

Div. of Inf. & Electron. Eng., Muroran Inst. of Technol., Muroran, Japan

Volume

33

Issue

18

fYear

2015

Firstpage

3866

Lastpage

3871

Abstract

We study on a novel single-polarization single-mode (SPSM) holey fiber (HF) using an anisotropic lattice of air holes. Elliptical-hole core circular-hole HFs (EC-CHFs) recently proposed can easily realize single-polarization regime by utilizing the anisotropic fundamental space-filling modes (FSMs) of the air hole lattices. In this paper, in order to realize an SPSM-HFs based on the same principle of the SPSM regime in the EC-CHF without using elliptical air holes, we use an anisotropic arrangement of circular air holes in the core region. In order to obtain Gaussian-like mode profile, the dependence of the FSM and mode profile on the air hole sizes, lattice constant, and air hole arrangement in the core region is investigated in detail.

Keywords

Gaussian processes; anisotropic media; holey fibres; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; optical lattices; Gaussian-like mode profile; anisotropic fundamental space-filling modes; anisotropic lattice; circular air holes; elliptical air holes; elliptical-hole core circular-hole holey fiber; single-polarization single-mode holey fiber; Dispersion; Hafnium; Indexes; Lattices; Magnetic cores; Optical polarization; Solids; Anisotropic lattice; anisotropic lattice; birefringence; photonic crystal fiber; single-polarization transmission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2015.2445938

Filename

7124405