Design and analysis of large-core single-mode windmill single crystal sapphire optical fiber

Cheng, Yujie; Hill, Cary; Liu, Bo; Yu, Zhihao; Xuan, Haifeng; Homa, Daniel; Wang, Anbo; Pickrell, Gary

doi:10.1117/1.OE.55.6.066101

Title: Design and analysis of large-core single-mode windmill single crystal sapphire optical fiber

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We present a large-core single-mode “windmill” single crystal sapphire optical fiber (SCSF) design, which exhibits single-mode operation by stripping off the higher-order modes (HOMs) while maintaining the fundamental mode. The “windmill” SCSF design was analyzed using the finite element analysis method, in which all the HOMs are leaky. The numerical simulation results show single-mode operation in the spectral range from 0.4 to 2 μm in the windmill SCSF, with an effective core diameter as large as 14 μm. Such fiber is expected to improve the performance of many of the current sapphire fiber optic sensor structures.

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Cheng, Yujie ^[1]; Hill, Cary ^[1]; Liu, Bo ^[1]; Yu, Zhihao ^[1]; Xuan, Haifeng ^[1]; Homa, Daniel ^[1]; Wang, Anbo ^[1]; Pickrell, Gary ^[1]

Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)

Publication Date:: Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016

Research Org.:: Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)

OSTI Identifier:: 1258655

Grant/Contract Number:: FE0012274

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Optical Engineering

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 55; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 0091-3286

Publisher:: SPIE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; single crystal sapphire; modal reduction; optical fiber

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                    Cheng, Yujie, Hill, Cary, Liu, Bo, Yu, Zhihao, Xuan, Haifeng, Homa, Daniel, Wang, Anbo, and Pickrell, Gary. Design and analysis of large-core single-mode windmill single crystal sapphire optical fiber.  United States: N. p., 2016. 
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                    Cheng, Yujie, Hill, Cary, Liu, Bo, Yu, Zhihao, Xuan, Haifeng, Homa, Daniel, Wang, Anbo, & Pickrell, Gary. Design and analysis of large-core single-mode windmill single crystal sapphire optical fiber.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.55.6.066101

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                    Cheng, Yujie, Hill, Cary, Liu, Bo, Yu, Zhihao, Xuan, Haifeng, Homa, Daniel, Wang, Anbo, and Pickrell, Gary. Wed .  
"Design and analysis of large-core single-mode windmill single crystal sapphire optical fiber".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.55.6.066101.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1258655.

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  title        = {Design and analysis of large-core single-mode windmill single crystal sapphire optical fiber},

  author       = {Cheng, Yujie and Hill, Cary and Liu, Bo and Yu, Zhihao and Xuan, Haifeng and Homa, Daniel and Wang, Anbo and Pickrell, Gary},

  abstractNote = {We present a large-core single-mode “windmill” single crystal sapphire optical fiber (SCSF) design, which exhibits single-mode operation by stripping off the higher-order modes (HOMs) while maintaining the fundamental mode. The “windmill” SCSF design was analyzed using the finite element analysis method, in which all the HOMs are leaky. The numerical simulation results show single-mode operation in the spectral range from 0.4 to 2 μm in the windmill SCSF, with an effective core diameter as large as 14 μm. Such fiber is expected to improve the performance of many of the current sapphire fiber optic sensor structures.},

  doi          = {10.1117/1.OE.55.6.066101},

  journal      = {Optical Engineering},

  number       = 6,

  volume       = 55,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016},

  month        = {Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016}

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