Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 8, Issue 10, 983(2010)

Equal channel spacing Sagnac filter using high-birefringent photonic crystal fibers

Xiurong Ma1,2 and Ying Zhu1,2
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Engineering Research Center of Communication Devices, Ministry of Education, Tianjin 300384, China
  • 2Tianjin Key Laboratory of Film Electronic and Communication Device, Tianjin 300384, China
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    An equal channel spacing Sagnac filter is proposed using a high-birefringent photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with birefringence square to the operation wavelength. A PCF with four smaller central air holes surrounded by larger air holes is applied in a Sagnac filter with optimized parameters to achieve equal channel spacing of 0.8 nm. Given that the birefringence of this PCF is square to the operation wavelength, the channel spacing of the proposed filter changes by only 0.03 nm within a wavelength range from 1400 to 1650 nm; this is about one order of magnitude less than that constructed with conventional high-birefringent fibers.

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    Xiurong Ma, Ying Zhu. Equal channel spacing Sagnac filter using high-birefringent photonic crystal fibers[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2010, 8(10): 983

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    Paper Information

    Received: Mar. 1, 2010

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Oct. 19, 2010

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    DOI:10.3788/COL20100810.0983

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