Experimental investigation of birefringence of solid core polarization maintaining photonic crystal fibers

Weiqian Duan; Yuanhong Yang; Xing Zhang; Miao Ye

doi:10.1117/12.999724

30 November 2012 Experimental investigation of birefringence of solid core polarization maintaining photonic crystal fibers

Weiqian Duan, Yuanhong Yang, Xing Zhang, Miao Ye

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Proceedings Volume 8561, Advanced Sensor Systems and Applications V; 85610J (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.999724
Event: Photonics Asia, 2012, Beijing, China

Abstract

We characterized the temperature sensitivity of birefringence of typical solid core polarization maintaining photonic crystal fiber (PM-PCF). Mainly the temperature dependence of birefringence is determined by two factors which are thermo-optic effects and thermal expansion. Numerical simulation with ANSYS and RSOFT show that the birefringence temperature susceptibility can be described as a polynomial function of Λ (distance between small holes) and zero temperature coefficient may be obtained at optimum Λ. A high precision birefringence measure setup was built and the birefringence of five PM-PCFs samples with different Λ were measured under different temperature. The experimental result agreed well with the simulation.

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Weiqian Duan, Yuanhong Yang, Xing Zhang, and Miao Ye "Experimental investigation of birefringence of solid core polarization maintaining photonic crystal fibers", Proc. SPIE 8561, Advanced Sensor Systems and Applications V, 85610J (30 November 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.999724

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