Measurements of temperature sensitivity in index-guided highly birefringent photonic crystal fibres

Tadeusz Martynkien, Gabriela Statkiewicz, Marcin Szpulak, Jacek Olszewski, Waclaw Urbanczyk, Jan Wojcik, Pawel Mergo, Mariusz Makara, Tomasz Nasilowski, Francis Berghmans, Hugo Thienpont

    Research outputpeer-review

    Abstract

    We measured the spectral dependence of the polarimetric sensitivity to temperature in three HB PCFs of different construction. The birefringence in the investigated fibers is induced respectively by elliptical shape of the core, by a pair of large cladding holes adjacent to the core or by one row of the cladding holes with diameters smaller than the other cladding holes. Our results show that the temperature sensitivity in the birefringent PCFs can vary in the range from 0 to 0.1 rad/K×m, is highly dispersive, and highly dependent upon fiber geometry. We also demonstrate that for one of the investigated fibers, the temperature sensitivity changes its sign at λ=1.44 μm, which makes this fiber completely insensitive to temperature at this wavelength.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationOptical Fiber Sensors, OFS 2006
    PublisherOptical Society of America (OSA)
    ISBN (Print)1557528179, 9781557528179
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 2006
    Event18th International Optical Fiber Sensors Conference - OSA, Cancun
    Duration: 23 Oct 200627 Oct 2006

    Publication series

    NameOptics InfoBase Conference Papers
    ISSN (Electronic)2162-2701

    Conference

    Conference18th International Optical Fiber Sensors Conference
    Country/TerritoryMexico
    CityCancun
    Period2006-10-232006-10-27

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Instrumentation
    • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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