Single-Polarization Single-Mode Photonic Band Gap Fiber

• Authors: M. Szpulak , T. Martynkien , J. Olszewski , W. Urbanczyk , T. Nasilowski , F. Berghmans , H. Thienpont
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We studied the polarization properties of four photonic band gap fibers with elliptical core and different cladding geometries. To do so we relied on a fully vectorial calculation method, which uses a hybrid edge/nodal finite element approach with perfectly matched layer absorbing boundary conditions. We determined the spectral dependence of the confinement loss for the fundamental modes of orthogonal polarizations. Our results show that, for the four structures studied, the polarization dependent loss is so high that they can be used as fiber-optic polarizers in the full band gap range.

Keywords

EN

42.81.Gs; 42.70.Qs; 42.81.-i

Discipline

• 42.70.Qs: Photonic bandgap materials(for photonic crystal lasers, see 42.55.Tv)
• 42.81.Gs: Birefringence, polarization
• 42.81.-i: Fiber optics

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 111
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 239-245

Dates

published

2007-02

received

2006-11-07

Contributors

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M. Szpulak

• Institute of Physics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland

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T. Martynkien

• Institute of Physics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland

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J. Olszewski

• Institute of Physics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland

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W. Urbanczyk

• Institute of Physics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland

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T. Nasilowski

• Department of Applied Physics and Photonics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,

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F. Berghmans

• Department of Applied Physics and Photonics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,

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H. Thienpont

• Department of Applied Physics and Photonics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.111.239