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.
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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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1 February 2010
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), .
(doi:10.1364/OL.35.000378).
Abstract
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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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/78906
ISSN: 0146-9592
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