Ultra-high birefringence elliptical cladding polarization-maintaining fiber with superimposed geometric birefringence

Optik ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 167854
Author(s):  
Haoyu Li ◽  
Xuyou Li ◽  
Jie Wang ◽  
Dan Xu
Keyword(s):  
High Birefringence ◽  
Polarization Maintaining Fiber ◽  
Polarization Maintaining

scholarly journals A High-Birefringence Microfiber Sagnac-Interferometer Biosensor Based on the Vernier Effect

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 4114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xue-Zhou Wang ◽  
Qi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Refractive Index ◽  
Sagnac Interferometer ◽  
Refractive Index Sensitivity ◽  
Electrostatic Adsorption ◽  
High Birefringence ◽  
Polarization Maintaining Fiber ◽  
Good Biocompatibility ◽  
Polarization Maintaining ◽  
Index Sensitivity ◽  
Index Unit

We propose a high-sensitive Sagnac-interferometer biosensor based on theVernier effect (VE) with a high-birefringence microfiber. The sensitivity enhancement is achieved by utilizing two cascaded Sagnac interferometers. One of the two interference loops consists of a panda polarization-maintaining fiber as a filter, whilst the other is comprised of high-birefringent microfiber coated Graphene oxide (GO) as a sensing channel. We theoretically analyzed the sensitivity of the sensor and verified it with experiments. The results of the simulation show that the refractive index sensitivity is more than five times that of the fiber sensor based on a single Sagnac loop. The sensitivity of the refractive index in the experiments can reach 2429 nm/refractive index unit (RIU), which is basically in accordance with the simulation. We also use electrostatic adsorption to coat GO on the surface of the sensing channel. GO is employed to adsorb bovine serum albumin (BSA) molecules to achieve the desired detection results, which has good biocompatibility and large specific surface area. The sensitivity to detect BSA can reach 9.097 nm/(mg×mL−1).

High Birefringence and Negative Dispersion Effect of Hybrid-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber

2012 ◽  
Vol 566 ◽  
pp. 599-603
Author(s):  
Ding Jie Xu ◽  
Hong Ru Song ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Yue Fan
Keyword(s):  
Photonic Crystal ◽  
Photonic Crystal Fiber ◽  
Structure Characteristics ◽  
High Birefringence ◽  
Crystal Fiber ◽  
Negative Dispersion ◽  
Vector Finite Element Method ◽  
Vector Finite Element ◽  
Polarization Maintaining Fiber ◽  
Polarization Maintaining

A novel type of hybrid-core photonic crystal fiber is proposed, whose core is composed of center-directionally decrescent air holes arrayed as pentagonal and an octagonal structure. Characteristics of the proposed PCF are analyzed theoretically by using all vector finite element method (V-FEM). Results show that high-birefringence and negative dispersion are obtained over the wavelength range from 0.8µm to 1.8µm, and the maximum of birefringence reaches 1.36×10-2 and negative dispersion achieves -600 ps•nm-1•km-1~-60 ps•nm-1•km-1, which will fulfill the requirement of high-birefringence polarization maintaining fiber fabricating and wideband dispersion compensating.

scholarly journals Group-Birefringence-Dispersion Measurements for Polarization-Maintaining Fibers Using a Kerr Phase-Interrogator

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (24) ◽  
pp. 9031
Author(s):  
Yang Lu
Keyword(s):  
Group Delay ◽  
Laser Wavelength ◽  
Differential Group Delay ◽  
Optical Signals ◽  
Differential Group ◽  
Principal Axes ◽  
Polarization Maintaining Fiber ◽  
Elliptical Core ◽  
Polarization Maintaining ◽  
The Impact

A method which utilizes a Kerr phase-interrogator to measure the group birefringence dispersion (GBD) of a polarization-maintaining fiber (PMF) is systematically studied in this paper. The differential group delay of two sinusoidally modulated optical signals (SMOSs) polarized along the principal axes of the PMF is measured by a Kerr phase-interrogator, which leads to the group birefringence of the PMF. As the laser wavelength of the SMOSs varies, the group birefringence as a function of the laser wavelength is obtained, and the GBD is calculated as the derivative of the group birefringence with respect to the laser wavelength. The proposed method is experimentally demonstrated by characterizations of a Panda PMF with high GBD and an elliptical core PMF with low GBD, and its performance is analyzed. The proposed method eliminates the impact of the laser coherent length and allows for characterizing the GBD of PMFs that are tens of kilometers long.

scholarly journals A Highly Birefringent Photonic Crystal Fiber for Terahertz Spectroscopic Chemical Sensing

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 1799
Author(s):  
Tianyu Yang ◽  
Liang Zhang ◽  
Yunjie Shi ◽  
Shidi Liu ◽  
Yuming Dong
Keyword(s):  
Photonic Crystal ◽  
Photonic Crystal Fiber ◽  
Chemical Sensing ◽  
Numerical Aperture ◽  
Wide Band ◽  
Relative Sensitivity ◽  
Chemical Sensitivity ◽  
High Birefringence ◽  
Crystal Fiber ◽  
Polarization Maintaining

A photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with high relative sensitivity was designed and investigated for the detection of chemical analytes in the terahertz (THz) regime. To ease the complexity, an extremely simple cladding employing four struts is adopted, which forms a rectangular shaped core area for filling with analytes. Results of enormous simulations indicate that a minimum 87.8% relative chemical sensitivity with low confinement and effective material absorption losses can be obtained for any kind of analyte, e.g., HCN (1.26), water (1.33), ethanol (1.35), KCN (1.41), or cocaine (1.50), whose refractive index falls in the range of 1.2 to 1.5. Besides, the PCF can also achieve high birefringence (∼0.01), low and flat dispersion, a large effective modal area, and a large numerical aperture within the investigated frequency range from 0.5 to 1.5 THz. We believe that the proposed PCF can be applied to chemical sensing of liquid and THz systems requiring wide-band polarization-maintaining transmission and low attenuation.

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