Polarizing properties of photonic crystal fibers

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

doi:10.1109/ICTON.2006.248322

Polarizing properties of photonic crystal fibers

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

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Abstract

We show that index guided and photonic bandgap holey fibers of specific construction can be used as a wide-band fiber-optic polarizers. Similarly to traditional polarizing fibers, the operation principle of the index guided PCF polarizers is related to the difference in cut-off wavelengths of the two orthogonally polarized fundamental modes. Several fiber structures were analyzed and optimized for possibly highest polarization bandwidth. Furthermore, we investigated polarizing properties of four PBG PCFs with elliptical core. Our results show that after optimization of the cladding geometry, the polarization dependent loss in the analyzed PBG structures are so high that they can be used as fiber-optic polarizers in the full bandgap range.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2006 International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2006
Pages	59-63
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2006.248322
State	Published - 2006
Event	2006 - ICTON: International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks - Nottingham Duration: 18 Jun 2006 → 22 Jun 2006 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/4013615/proceeding

Publication series

Name	2006 International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
Volume	2

Conference

Conference	2006 - ICTON
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Nottingham
Period	2006-06-18 → 2006-06-22
Internet address	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/4013615/proceeding

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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Urbanczyk, W., Szpulak, M., Statkiewicz, G., Martynkien, T., Olszewski, J., Wojcik, J., Mergo, P., Makara, M., Nasilowski, T., Berghmans, F., & Thienpont, H. (2006). Polarizing properties of photonic crystal fibers. In 2006 International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2006 (pp. 59-63). Article 4013718 (2006 International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks; Vol. 2). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2006.248322

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