A Dual Hollow Core Antiresonant Optical Fiber Coupler Based on a Highly Birefringent Structure-Numerical Design and Analysis
Department of Telecommunications and Teleinformatics, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland
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Fibers 2019, 7(12), 109; https://doi.org/10.3390/fib7120109
Received: 7 November 2019
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Revised: 25 November 2019
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Accepted: 2 December 2019
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Published: 7 December 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microstructured Optical Fibers and Applications)
With the growing interest in hollow-core antiresonant fibers (HC-ARF), attributed to the development of their fabrication technology, the appearance of more sophisticated structures is understandable. One of the recently advancing concepts is that of dual hollow-core antiresonant fibers, which have the potential to be used as optical fiber couplers. In the following paper, a design of a dual hollow-core antiresonant fiber (DHC-ARF) acting as a polarization fiber coupler is presented. The structure is based on a highly birefringent hollow-core fiber design, which is proven to be a promising solution for the purpose of propagation of polarized signals. The design of an optimized DHC-ARF with asymmetrical cores is proposed, together with analysis of its essential coupling parameters, such as the extinction ratio, coupling length ratio, and coupling strength. The latter two for the x- and y-polarized signals were ~2 and 1, respectively, while the optical losses were below 0.3 dB/cm in the 1500–1700 nm transmission band.
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Keywords:
hollow-core antiresonant fibers; optical fiber couplers; hollow-core optical fiber couplers; optical fiber design; polarization splitters
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Stawska, H.I.; Popenda, M.A. A Dual Hollow Core Antiresonant Optical Fiber Coupler Based on a Highly Birefringent Structure-Numerical Design and Analysis. Fibers 2019, 7, 109. https://doi.org/10.3390/fib7120109
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Stawska HI, Popenda MA. A Dual Hollow Core Antiresonant Optical Fiber Coupler Based on a Highly Birefringent Structure-Numerical Design and Analysis. Fibers. 2019; 7(12):109. https://doi.org/10.3390/fib7120109
Chicago/Turabian StyleStawska, Hanna I., and Maciej A. Popenda. 2019. "A Dual Hollow Core Antiresonant Optical Fiber Coupler Based on a Highly Birefringent Structure-Numerical Design and Analysis" Fibers 7, no. 12: 109. https://doi.org/10.3390/fib7120109
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