摘要
Weproposeanovelwaveguidedesignofpolarization-maintainingfewmodefiber(PM-FMF)supporting≥10non-degeneratemodes,utilizingacentralcircularairholeandacircumjacentelliptical-ringcore.Thestructureendowsanewdegreeoffreedomtoadjustthebirefringenceofalltheguidedmodes,includingthefundamentalpolarizationmode.Numericalsimulationsdemonstratethat,byoptimizingtheairholeandelliptical-ringcore,aPM-FMFsupporting10distinctivepolarizationmodeshasbeenachieved,andtheeffectiveindexdifferenceΔneffbetweentheadjacentguidedmodescouldbekeptlargerthan1.32×10-4overthewholeC+Lband.TheproposedfiberstructurecanflexiblytailoredtosupportanevenlargernumberofmodesinPM-FMF(14-modePM-FMFhasbeendemonstratedasanexample),whichcanbereadilyapplicabletoascalablemodedivisionmultiplexingsystem.
出版日期
2017年03月13日(中国Betway体育网页登陆平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)