Light-guidance in step-index fibers with non-circular shaped core

Jan Heimann; Philipp Raithel; Tim Tobisch; Mathias Belz; Karl-Friedrich Klein

doi:10.1117/12.2182346

7 May 2015 Light-guidance in step-index fibers with non-circular shaped core

Jan Heimann, Philipp Raithel, Tim Tobisch, Mathias Belz, Karl-Friedrich Klein

Proceedings Volume 9507, Micro-structured and Specialty Optical Fibres IV; 95070R (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2182346
Event: SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics, 2015, Prague, Czech Republic

Abstract

Step-index multimode fibers with non-circular core are becoming popular and offer several interesting new light-guiding properties, which can be studied with an emphasis on selective modes or ray patterns. Observing the far-field profile at the fiber output, ray-conversion can be determined, taking the azimuthal angle defined in respect to an adjusted reference into account. Using the inverse far-field method at one laser wavelength, the numerical aperture (NA) of these specialty fibers is determined as a function of excitation condition, such as input angle and rotation around the fiber axis. Further angledependent analysis of ring-shaped far-field pattern at the fiber output resulted in significant differences between the fibers with non-circular core shapes and classic circular fibers. In addition, with squared core fibers, the near- and farfield pattern at their respective fiber output were varying due to rotating the fiber around the fiber axis at their input side. Especially, a disturbance of the azimuthally homogenous ring shape was observed using input angles close to the numerical aperture of the fiber.

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Jan Heimann, Philipp Raithel, Tim Tobisch, Mathias Belz, and Karl-Friedrich Klein "Light-guidance in step-index fibers with non-circular shaped core", Proc. SPIE 9507, Micro-structured and Specialty Optical Fibres IV, 95070R (7 May 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2182346

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