Design and analysis of large-core single-mode windmill single crystal sapphire optical fiber

Yujie Cheng; Cary Hill; Bo Liu; Zhihao Yu; Haifeng Xuan; Daniel Homa; Anbo Wang; Gary Pickrell

doi:10.1117/1.OE.55.6.066101

1 June 2016 Design and analysis of large-core single-mode windmill single crystal sapphire optical fiber

Yujie Cheng, Cary Hill, Bo Liu, Zhihao Yu, Haifeng Xuan, Daniel Homa, Anbo Wang, Gary Pickrell

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 55, Issue 6, 066101 (June 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.55.6.066101

Abstract

We present a large-core single-mode “windmill” single crystal sapphire optical fiber (SCSF) design, which exhibits single-mode operation by stripping off the higher-order modes (HOMs) while maintaining the fundamental mode. The “windmill” SCSF design was analyzed using the finite element analysis method, in which all the HOMs are leaky. The numerical simulation results show single-mode operation in the spectral range from 0.4 to 2 μm in the windmill SCSF, with an effective core diameter as large as 14 μm. Such fiber is expected to improve the performance of many of the current sapphire fiber optic sensor structures.

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Yujie Cheng, Cary Hill, Bo Liu, Zhihao Yu, Haifeng Xuan, Daniel Homa, Anbo Wang, and Gary Pickrell "Design and analysis of large-core single-mode windmill single crystal sapphire optical fiber," Optical Engineering 55(6), 066101 (1 June 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.55.6.066101

Published: 1 June 2016

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