Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 14, Issue 2, 81(2018)

All-fiber mode converter based on superimposed longperiod fiber gratings

Yan-ru XUE1...2, Wei-hong BI1,3,*, Wa JIN1, Peng-fei TIAN1, Peng JIANG1, Qiang LIU1 and Yun JIN1 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1School of Information Science and Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
  • 2College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Hebei Normal University of Science & Technology, Qinhuang-dao 066004, China
  • 3Key Laboratory for Special Fiber and Fiber Sensor of Heibei Province, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
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    In this paper, a novel broadband all-fiber mode converter is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. Through writ-ing a pair of superimposed long period fiber gratings (SLPFGs) in tow-mode fiber (TMF) with a CO2 laser, the mode converter can realize the conversion from LP01 to LP11 owing to the phase matching condition. Numerical and experi-mental results show that the bandwidth of this mode converter is 3 times broader than that of a single grating converter. The converter has low loss, high coupling efficiency, small size and is easy to fabricate, so it can be widely used in mode-division multiplexing.

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    XUE Yan-ru, BI Wei-hong, JIN Wa, TIAN Peng-fei, JIANG Peng, LIU Qiang, JIN Yun. All-fiber mode converter based on superimposed longperiod fiber gratings[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2018, 14(2): 81

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    Paper Information

    Received: Jun. 26, 2017

    Accepted: Nov. 21, 2017

    Published Online: Sep. 17, 2018

    The Author Email: Wei-hong BI (whbi@ysu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s11801-018-7141-y

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