Highly birefringent holey fibers with zero polarimetric sensitivity to temperature

Tadeusz Martynkien; Alicja Anuszkiewicz; Gabriela Statkiewicz; Waclaw Urbanczyk; Jan Wojcik; Pawel Mergo; Mariusz Makara; Tomasz Nasilowski; Herman Terryn; Francis Berghmans; Hugo Thienpont

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21 April 2008 Highly birefringent holey fibers with zero polarimetric sensitivity to temperature

Tadeusz Martynkien, Alicja Anuszkiewicz, Gabriela Statkiewicz, Waclaw Urbanczyk, Jan Wojcik, Pawel Mergo, Mariusz Makara, Tomasz Nasilowski, Herman Terryn, Francis Berghmans, Hugo Thienpont

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Proceedings Volume 6990, Photonic Crystal Fibers II; 699011 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.781519
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2008, Strasbourg, France

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We investigated theoretically and experimentally the polarimetric sensitivity to temperature of highly birefringent photonic crystal fibers (HB PCFs) in which the birefringence is induced by two large holes adjacent to the core. We carried out the sensitivity measurements in a broad spectral range (680-1550 nm) using a spectral domain interferometric method for two fibers with different pitch distance and hole diameter. Our results show that the polarimetric sensitivity to temperature in the investigated fibers is highly dispersive and crosses zero at specific wavelengths. Furthermore, we found good agreement between the measured and the calculated characteristics.

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Tadeusz Martynkien, Alicja Anuszkiewicz, Gabriela Statkiewicz, Waclaw Urbanczyk, Jan Wojcik, Pawel Mergo, Mariusz Makara, Tomasz Nasilowski, Herman Terryn, Francis Berghmans, and Hugo Thienpont "Highly birefringent holey fibers with zero polarimetric sensitivity to temperature", Proc. SPIE 6990, Photonic Crystal Fibers II, 699011 (21 April 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.781519

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