Highly birefringent polarization maintaining low-loss single-mode hollow-core antiresonant fiber

Abstract

In this paper, a highly birefringent polarization maintaining low losses and a single mode antiresonant hollow core fiber is proposed and analyzed, that is able to exhibit better performances compared to the recent related structures. The usage of bi-thickness cladding tubes with additional high refractive index layers on our geometrically optimized structure improves birefringence nearly by one order: the highest birefringence is 4.7 × 10−4 at 1.51 µm and sustains > 1 × 10−4 for a wide bandwidth of 100 nm with a larger core diameter of 26 µm. Elliptical nesting on our proposed structure lowers the confinement loss to 0.007 dB/m at 1.51 µm and maintains a loss of < 1 dB/m for a wide range of 210 nm. A polarization extinction ratio of 300 and higher order mode extinction ratio of 63, for our fiber, ensure a single polarization and single mode operation at 1.51 µm. Moreover, the proposed fiber exhibits a bend robust performance with a very low bend loss of 0.009 dB/m at a small bend radius of 6 cm and sustains a bend loss of < 0.01 dB/m from a bend radius of 4 cm and above. Hence, our presented fiber, containing the above excellent characteristics, may be fruitful for designing polarization-controlled devices (fiber optic sensors, fiber optic amplifiers, fiber optic gyroscope, etc.) in the field of optical communication.