A THz polarization splitter made from suspended dual-core porous fiber

Li Shan-Shan; Chang Sheng-Jiang; Zhang Hao; Bai Jin-Jun; Liu Wei-Wei

doi:10.7498/aps.63.110706

Abstract

A low loss broadband THz polarization splitter made from suspended dual-core porous fiber is proposed. The property of low loss is due to the porous structure of the fiber, and the match of single polarization mode is achieved by the orthogonal relationship of the microstructure in the two fiber cores. Structure of the fiber is designed by using index converse matching coupling method. Numerical simulation is carried out by employing full vector finite element method. The background material is cyclo olefin polymer COC with low loss property in THz region. Firstly, the properties of a suspended porous fiber with a single core has been analyzed in detail, including the effective refractive index, birefringence, fraction of modal power in air, and material absorption loss in the fundamental mode. Moreover, the properties of THz polarization splitter made from suspended dual-core porous fibers have been investigated theoretically. Numerical simulation results show that the operation bandwidth is 1.5 THz (from 0.8 THz to 2.3 THz). At 1 THz, the splitting length is only 0.66 cm. The extinction ratios for x and y polarization modes can reach -14.64 dB and -14.84 dB, respectively. The practical material absorption loss is less than 0.12 dB for both x and y polarization modes. Compared with other dual-core-PCF-based polarization splitters, the dual-core porous fiber has several advantages such as simplicity for structure designing, ease of fabrication, better feasibility in practical applications, low transmission loss, and wide operation frequency bandwidth.

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Authors and contacts

1.
Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China;
2.
School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tianjin Polytechnic University, Tianjin 300387, China
Funds: Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2014CB339800), the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant Nos. 2011AA010205, 2013AA014201), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61171027, 11274182, 11004110), the Science and Technology Program of Tianjin, China (Grant No. 13RCGFGX01127), and the Tianjin City High School Science & Technology Fund Planning Project, China (Grant No. 20120706).

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