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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 29, Issue 15, Pages 22883-22899Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.428726
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- Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej [POIR.04.04.00-00-1C74/16]
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We investigated the development of a silica all-glass optical fiber with highly birefringent large mode area, achieved birefringence and single mode operation independent of bending through internal nanostructuring of the core, optimized fiber properties by appropriate selection of germanium and fluorine doping level, and successfully demonstrated its application as a core material in large core area fibers in C-band for polarization components of the fundamental mode.
We test the development of a silica all-glass optical fiber with a highly birefringent large mode area (HB-LMA). In the fiber, the birefringence and single mode operation are independent of bending and results from the internal nanostructuring of the core, which makes the glass anisotropic. Taking into account technological limitations of the doped silica glasses, we optimized the HB-LMA fiber properties by appropriate selection of germanium and fluorine doping level of silica used in the fiber core and cladding. We demonstrated that the anisotropic glass can be successfully used as a core material in large core area fibres in C-band for polarization components of the fundamental mode. We obtained phase birefringence of 1.92 x 10(-4) in the fiber with the core diameter of 30 mu m and the effective mode area equal to 573 mu m(2) and 804 mu m(2), for x- and y-polarization, respectively. The same approach was applied to designing a single mode fiber with 40 mu m core diameter and effective mode area over 1000 mu m(2), which supports only single polarization. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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