Design of hollow core step-index antiresonant fiber with stepped refractive indices cladding

doi:10.1007/s12200-020-1109-9

Front. Optoelectron.

2021, Vol. 14

Issue (4) : 407-413 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-020-1109-9

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Design of hollow core step-index antiresonant fiber with stepped refractive indices cladding

Botao DENG¹, Chaotan SIMA¹(

), Hongyu TAN¹, Xiaohang ZHANG¹, Zhenggang LIAN², Guoqun CHEN², Qianqing YU², Jianghe XU², Deming LIU¹

¹. Next Generation Internet Access National Engineering Laboratory, School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
². Yangtze Optical Electronics Co., Ltd. (YOEC), Wuhan 430205, China

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Abstract

With the benefits of low latency, wide transmission bandwidth, and large mode field area, hollow-core antiresonant fiber (HC-ARF) has been a research hotspot in the past decade. In this paper, a hollow core step-index antiresonant fiber (HC-SARF), with stepped refractive indices cladding, is proposed and numerically demonstrated with the benefits of loss reduction and bending improvement. Glass-based capillaries with both high (n = 1.45) and low (as low as n = 1.36) refractive indices layers are introduced and formatted in the cladding air holes. Using the finite element method to perform numerical analysis of the designed fiber, results show that at the laser wavelengths of 980 and 1064 nm, the confinement loss is favorably reduced by about 6 dB/km compared with the conventional uniform cladding HC-ARF. The bending loss, around 15 cm bending radius of this fiber, is also reduced by 2 dB/km. The cladding air hole radius in this fiber is further investigated to optimize the confinement loss and the mode field diameter with single-mode transmission behavior. This proposed HC-SARF has great potential in optical fiber transmission and high energy delivery.

Keywords antiresonant fiber (ARF) stepped refractive indices confinement loss bending loss laser pumping

Corresponding Author(s): Chaotan SIMA

Just Accepted Date: 09 December 2020 Online First Date: 05 January 2021 Issue Date: 06 December 2021

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Botao DENG,Chaotan SIMA,Hongyu TAN, et al. Design of hollow core step-index antiresonant fiber with stepped refractive indices cladding[J]. Front. Optoelectron., 2021, 14(4): 407-413.

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Fig.1 Longitudinal structure schematic of the stepped refractive index HC-ARF based on the ARROW model

Fig.2 Cross section of HC-SARF with stepped high and low refractive indices cladding. (a) Overall transverse geometry. (b) Enlarged stepped indices area

Fig.3 Fundamental mode field distribution of the designed HC-SARF with stepped refractive indices cladding. (a) Two-dimensional image. (b) Three-dimensional profile

Fig.4 Confinement loss with respect to wavelength for the designed HC-SARF with different indices contrast

Fig.5 Fundamental mode field distribution of the bending HC-SARF in the x-axis orientation

Fig.6 Bending loss with respect to bending radius for the designed HC-SARF. (a) Between 8 and 20 cm. (b) Enlarged section between 14 and 20 cm

Fig.7 Fundamental mode confinement loss with respect to cladding air hole radius r for the designed HC-SARF

Fig.8 Mode effective refractive index n_eff of the core and cladding mode. (a) Relationship with wavelengths for r = 11, 12, and 13 cm. (b) Detailed n_eff contrast between LP_11-core and LP_01-cladding

Fig.9 Fundamental mode field diameter with respect to cladding air hole radius for the designed HC-SARF

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