Abstract

A bend-resistant side-leakage photonic crystal fiber with large-mode-area (LMA) is proposed. Simulation results demonstrate that the robust single-mode operation is obtained thanks to an extremely high loss ratio (the minimum loss of high order modes to the loss of fundamental mode (FM)) at the wavelength of 2 μm while the bend radius is as small as 10 cm. Meanwhile, the FM suffers a low bend loss of 0.006 dB m−1 with an effective mode area exceeding 2000 μm2. The bend-resistant performance can be maintained over a broad range of wavelengths from 1.75 to 2.5 μm. Except for a wide waveband, a large tolerance for bend radius is also obtained. The fiber is able to operate under single-mode operation within a range of bend radius from 9 to 24 cm. LMA and single-mode operation under a small bend radius make this fiber have great potential in developing compact high power fiber lasers.

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