Quarter wave plate made by cutting straight holey birefringent fiber

Zhi-Dong Shi; Min-Ning Ji; Jian-Qiang Lin; Ming-Jia Li; Ye Bai

doi:10.1117/12.803531

11 November 2008 Quarter wave plate made by cutting straight holey birefringent fiber

Zhi-Dong Shi, Min-Ning Ji, Jian-Qiang Lin, Ming-Jia Li, Ye Bai

Proceedings Volume 7134, Passive Components and Fiber-based Devices V; 713449 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.803531
Event: Asia-Pacific Optical Communications, 2008, Hangzhou, China

Abstract

Compact samples of quarter wave plate have been fabricated respectively by cutting holey birefringent fiber and conventional birefringent fiber into different length of short sections. The temperature instability and wavelength sensitivity of these samples are analyzed and measured. The influence of fiber length and fiber prototype on the retardation variation is compared. The retardation deviation almost linearly increases with the fiber length of samples. Compared with the sample made of conventional birefringent fiber, the temperature stability of the sample made of holey birefringent fiber is greatly improved by one order, but the wavelength bandwidth needs to be further expanded by optimizing the holey cladding structure.

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Zhi-Dong Shi, Min-Ning Ji, Jian-Qiang Lin, Ming-Jia Li, and Ye Bai "Quarter wave plate made by cutting straight holey birefringent fiber", Proc. SPIE 7134, Passive Components and Fiber-based Devices V, 713449 (11 November 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.803531

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