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A novel polarization splitter based on the photonic crystal fiber with nonidentical dual cores

Dept. of Precision Instrum., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (impact factor: 2.19). 08/2004; DOI:10.1109/LPT.2004.828850 pp.1670 - 1672
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ABSTRACT A novel polarization splitter based on photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) with two nonidentical cores is proposed. The two highly birefringent cores are vertically arranged to obtain polarization selective coupling. The horizontal polarization exchanges its energy between the two cores. However, the vertical polarization shows little coupling between the two cores. This is achieved in single-material glass waveguides for the first time to our knowledge. The PCF-based polarization splitter exhibits many advantages such as shorter length, high extinction ratio, and wide bandwidth over its counterparts.

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Keywords

extinction ratio
 
horizontal polarization exchanges
 
nonidentical cores
 
novel polarization splitter
 
PCF-based polarization splitter exhibits
 
photonic crystal fibers
 
polarization selective coupling
 
single-material glass waveguides
 
two cores
 
vertical polarization