A Negative-Curvature Hollow-Core Fiber Structure With Double Trigonal-Symmetrical Anti-Resonant Elements

We propose a novel negative-curvature hollow-core fiber structure with double trigonal-symmetrical anti-resonant elements implementing single-mode or polarization-maintaining transmission for high-power laser delivery in the 1 µm wavelength window. For the single-mode fiber, the single-mo...

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Main Authors: Yanyan Zhou, Ruiting Cao, Shijie Wang, Jinggang Peng, Haiqing Li, Yingbo Chu, Yingbin Xing, Nengli Dai, JinYan Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2022-01-01
Series:IEEE Photonics Journal
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9657203/
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Summary:We propose a novel negative-curvature hollow-core fiber structure with double trigonal-symmetrical anti-resonant elements implementing single-mode or polarization-maintaining transmission for high-power laser delivery in the 1 &#x00B5;m wavelength window. For the single-mode fiber, the single-mode performance with a higher-order modes extinction ratio (HOMER) as high as 4.65&#x002A;10<sup>4</sup> is achieved, and it remains &gt;1&#x002A;10<sup>4</sup> with a large fault tolerance proportion of tubes size, which can increase the flexibility of fiber fabrication. For another polarization-maintaining fiber, an ultra-low confinement loss of 0.005 dB&#x002F;m is obtained for polarization-maintaining transmission by optimizing the refractive index of the two transverse glass tubes, while the polarization extinction ratio and HOMER remain both &gt;1&#x002A;10<sup>3</sup>. This is the first birefringent negative-curvature hollow-core fiber with a loss below 0.01 dB&#x002F;m in the 1 &#x00B5;m wavelength window.
ISSN:1943-0655