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Modal content in hypocycloid Kagomé hollow core photonic crystal fibers

Modal content in hypocycloid Kagomé hollow core photonic crystal fibers
Modal content in hypocycloid Kagomé hollow core photonic crystal fibers
The modal content of 7 and 19 cell Kagomé anti resonant hollow core fibers (K-ARF) with hypocycloid core surrounds is experimentally investigated through the spectral and spatial (S2) imaging technique. It is observed that the 7 and 19 cell K-ARF reported here, support 4 and 7 LP mode groups respectively, however the observation that K-ARF support few mode groups is likely to be ubiquitous to 7 and 19 cell K-ARFs. The transmission loss of the higher order modes (HOMs) was measured via S2 and a cutback method. In the 7 cell K-ARF it is found that the LP11 and LP21 modes have approximately 3.6 and 5.7 times the loss of the fundamental mode (FM), respectively. In the 19 cell it is found that the LP11 mode has approximately 2.57 times the loss of the FM, while the LP02 mode has approximately 2.62 times the loss of the FM. Additionally, bend loss in these fibers is studied for the first time using S2 to reveal the effect of bend on modal content. Our measurements demonstrate that K-ARFs support a few mode groups and indicate that the differential loss of the HOMs is not substantially higher than that of the FM, and that bending the fiber does not induce significant inter modal coupling. A study of three different input beam coupling configurations demonstrates increased HOM excitation at output and a non-Gaussian profile of the output beam if poor mode field matching is achieved.
1094-4087
15798-15812
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Sandoghchi, Seyed Reza
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Bradley, Thomas, Wheeler, Natalie, Jasion, G., Gray, David, Hayes, John, Gouveia, Marcelo Botelho Alonso, Sandoghchi, Seyed Reza, Chen, Yong, Poletti, Francesco, Richardson, David and Petrovich, Marco (2016) Modal content in hypocycloid Kagomé hollow core photonic crystal fibers. Optics Express, 24 (14), 15798-15812. (doi:10.1364/OE.24.015798).

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The modal content of 7 and 19 cell Kagomé anti resonant hollow core fibers (K-ARF) with hypocycloid core surrounds is experimentally investigated through the spectral and spatial (S2) imaging technique. It is observed that the 7 and 19 cell K-ARF reported here, support 4 and 7 LP mode groups respectively, however the observation that K-ARF support few mode groups is likely to be ubiquitous to 7 and 19 cell K-ARFs. The transmission loss of the higher order modes (HOMs) was measured via S2 and a cutback method. In the 7 cell K-ARF it is found that the LP11 and LP21 modes have approximately 3.6 and 5.7 times the loss of the fundamental mode (FM), respectively. In the 19 cell it is found that the LP11 mode has approximately 2.57 times the loss of the FM, while the LP02 mode has approximately 2.62 times the loss of the FM. Additionally, bend loss in these fibers is studied for the first time using S2 to reveal the effect of bend on modal content. Our measurements demonstrate that K-ARFs support a few mode groups and indicate that the differential loss of the HOMs is not substantially higher than that of the FM, and that bending the fiber does not induce significant inter modal coupling. A study of three different input beam coupling configurations demonstrates increased HOM excitation at output and a non-Gaussian profile of the output beam if poor mode field matching is achieved.

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Submitted date: 8 April 2016
Accepted/In Press date: 24 June 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 5 July 2016
Published date: 5 July 2016
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 391450
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/391450
ISSN: 1094-4087
PURE UUID: c09566b9-79cf-4f82-be52-2e2639a1eb0b
ORCID for Thomas Bradley: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6568-5811
ORCID for Natalie Wheeler: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1265-9510
ORCID for G. Jasion: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5030-6479
ORCID for Seyed Reza Sandoghchi: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2196-3167
ORCID for Yong Chen: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0383-6113
ORCID for Francesco Poletti: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1000-3083
ORCID for David Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058
ORCID for Marco Petrovich: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3905-5901

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Date deposited: 07 Jul 2016 08:14
Last modified: 23 Mar 2024 02:47

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Author: Thomas Bradley ORCID iD
Author: Natalie Wheeler ORCID iD
Author: G. Jasion ORCID iD
Author: David Gray
Author: John Hayes
Author: Marcelo Botelho Alonso Gouveia
Author: Seyed Reza Sandoghchi ORCID iD
Author: Yong Chen ORCID iD
Author: Marco Petrovich ORCID iD

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