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Highly birefringent silica microfiber

Highly birefringent silica microfiber
Highly birefringent silica microfiber
A highly birefringent silica microfiber was successfully developed by adiabatically tapering a low-birefringence flat fiber at a low temperature. Owing to the high fiber cross-sectional ellipticity and the large refractive index contrast between silica and the surrounding air (δ n=0.45) the flat microfiber provides an extremely high group birefringence ( B = 5.3 × 10-3 at 1550 nm). The ability to obtain high birefringence in optical microfibers offers new possibilities for polarization discrimination and control within microfiber devices, such as high-resolution optical sensors, resonators, and fiber lasers.
0146-9592
378-380
Jung, Yongmin
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Brambilla, Gilberto
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Oh, Kyunghwan
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Richardson, David J.
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Jung, Yongmin
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Brambilla, Gilberto
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Oh, Kyunghwan
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Richardson, David J.
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Jung, Yongmin, Brambilla, Gilberto, Oh, Kyunghwan and Richardson, David J. (2010) Highly birefringent silica microfiber. Optics Letters, 35 (3), 378-380. (doi:10.1364/OL.35.000378).

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A highly birefringent silica microfiber was successfully developed by adiabatically tapering a low-birefringence flat fiber at a low temperature. Owing to the high fiber cross-sectional ellipticity and the large refractive index contrast between silica and the surrounding air (δ n=0.45) the flat microfiber provides an extremely high group birefringence ( B = 5.3 × 10-3 at 1550 nm). The ability to obtain high birefringence in optical microfibers offers new possibilities for polarization discrimination and control within microfiber devices, such as high-resolution optical sensors, resonators, and fiber lasers.

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Published date: 1 February 2010

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Local EPrints ID: 78906
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/78906
ISSN: 0146-9592
PURE UUID: 6c9a390e-b1d4-4608-ab15-718110eeca91
ORCID for Yongmin Jung: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9054-4372
ORCID for Gilberto Brambilla: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5730-0499
ORCID for David J. Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058

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Date deposited: 16 Mar 2010
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 02:54

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Author: Yongmin Jung ORCID iD
Author: Gilberto Brambilla ORCID iD
Author: Kyunghwan Oh

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