DIFFERENTIAL LOSSES IN BRAGG FIBERS

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作者
DESTERKE, CM [1 ]
BASSETT, IM [1 ]
STREET, AG [1 ]
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[1] UNIV SYDNEY,CTR OPT FIBRE TECHNOL,SYDNEY,NSW 2006,AUSTRALIA
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10.1063/1.357811
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O59 [应用物理学];
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摘要
Most dielectric waveguides depend for guidance on total internal reflection within a region of elevated refractive index. A little-explored alternative to this is Bragg reflection. Here we consider a ''Bragg'' optical fiber in which a cylindrical Bragg grating is used to inhibit radial power flow. We find that such Bragg fibers can be guaranteed to be effectively single-moded, with no polarization degeneracy; the electric field in this fundamental mode is purely azimuthal (transverse electric polarized).
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