Design and analysis of three-layer-core optical fiber

Siwen Zheng; Yazhuo Liu; Guangjian Chang

doi:10.1117/1.OE.57.3.036111

20 March 2018 Design and analysis of three-layer-core optical fiber

Siwen Zheng, Yazhuo Liu, Guangjian Chang

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 57, Issue 3, 036111 (March 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.57.3.036111

Abstract

A three-layer-core single-mode large-mode-area fiber is investigated. The three-layer structure in the core, which is composed of a core-index layer, a cladding-index layer, and a depression-index layer, could achieve a large effective area A_eff while maintaining an ultralow bending loss without deteriorating cutoff behaviors. The single-mode large mode area of 100 to 330 μm² could be achieved in the fiber. The effective area A_eff can be further enlarged by adjusting the layer parameters. Furthermore, the bending property could be improved in this three-layer-core structure. The bending loss could decrease by 2 to 4 orders of magnitude compared with the conventional step-index fiber with the same A_eff. These characteristics of three-layer-core fiber suggest that it can be used in large-mode-area wide-bandwidth high-capacity transmission or high-power optical fiber laser and amplifier in optical communications, which could be used for the basic physical layer structure of big data storage, reading, calculation, and transmission applications.

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Siwen Zheng, Yazhuo Liu, and Guangjian Chang "Design and analysis of three-layer-core optical fiber," Optical Engineering 57(3), 036111 (20 March 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.57.3.036111

Received: 3 November 2017; Accepted: 27 February 2018; Published: 20 March 2018

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