Mode field expansion in index-guiding microstructured optical fibers

Dinesh Kumar Sharma; Anurag Sharma

doi:10.1117/12.2026012

20 May 2013 Mode field expansion in index-guiding microstructured optical fibers

Dinesh Kumar Sharma, Anurag Sharma

Proceedings Volume 8794, Fifth European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors; 87942A (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2026012
Event: Fifth European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors, 2013, Krakow, Poland

Abstract

The mode-field expander (MFE) is a microstructured optical fiber (MOF) based device that enlarges the modal field distribution and can couple light from large mode area (LMA) fibers into small core fibers or vice-versa and other optical waveguides. Using our earlier developed analytical field model, we studied the mode-field expansion in MOFs having triangular lattice, and low-loss splicing of MOFs to standard single-mode fibers (SMFs), based on the controlled all airhole collapse method, which leads to an optimum mode-field match at the joint interface of the MOF-SMF. Comparisons with available experimental and simulation results have also been included.

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Dinesh Kumar Sharma and Anurag Sharma "Mode field expansion in index-guiding microstructured optical fibers", Proc. SPIE 8794, Fifth European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors, 87942A (20 May 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2026012

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