Hybrid structure polarization-maintaining hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber with anti-resonant tubes and silicon layers.

Abstract

A novel-hybrid structure polarization-maintaining 19-cell hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber (HC-PBGF) is proposed. Robust single-mode characteristic is achieved by introducing six anti-resonant tubes into the core of 19-cell HC-PBGF. A high birefringence at the level of 10-3 is achieved by adding silicon layers into the y-direction tubes. The higher-order mode extinction ratio (HOMER) is greater than 4.71 × 107, and the high birefringence can be improved to 5 × 10-3. In the waveband from 1530 nm to 1595 nm, the single-mode, high birefringence performance can be effectively maintained even under a tight bending radius of 5 mm.