Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 58, Issue 23, 2326001(2021)

Polarization-Maintaining Anti-Resonant Hollow-Core Optical Fibers

Yubo Xue, Haisu Li*, Yajing Liu, Wei Wang, Youchao Jiang, Guobin Ren, and Li Pei
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  • Key Laboratory of All Optical Network and Advanced Telecommunication Network of EMC, Institute of Lightwave Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
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    Modern optical networks require broadband, high-speed, large-capacity transmission techniques. Based on the anti-resonant reflecting optical waveguiding mechanism, we propose a polarization-maintaining (PM) hollow-core optical fiber. The light is confined by four tubes, which have different thicknesses along two orthogonal directions to achieve efficient PM guidance. To enhance the PM performance while achieving low propagation loss, we investigate the effects of additional anti-resonant layers in the tubes, tube thickness, air-core size and the distance between two adjacent tubes. Numerical simulations indicate that, at 1550 nm, the proposed fiber supports two orthogonally polarized modes with the birefringence of 1.2×10-4 and the propagation losses of HE11x and HE11y modes are 0.002 dB/m and 0.013 dB/m respectively. Moreover, within 1425~1725 nm (bandwidth of 300 nm), the birefringence of the proposed fiber is no less than 1.0×10-4, the propagation losses are within 0.002 dB/m and 0.185 dB/m, and the dispersions are less than 45.51 ps?nm-1?km-1. We also show that the proposed fiber has low bend losses thanks to the air-core guidance. The proposed fiber may have applications for data centers and financial network systems that need short-range, large-capacity and low-latency transmission.

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    Yubo Xue, Haisu Li, Yajing Liu, Wei Wang, Youchao Jiang, Guobin Ren, Li Pei. Polarization-Maintaining Anti-Resonant Hollow-Core Optical Fibers[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2021, 58(23): 2326001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Physical Optics

    Received: Mar. 2, 2021

    Accepted: Mar. 17, 2021

    Published Online: Nov. 19, 2021

    The Author Email: Li Haisu (lihaisu@bjtu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP202158.2326001

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