Title

Polarization Converting Element For Minimizing The Losses In Cylindrical Hollow-Waveguides

Keywords

Hollow waveguide; Micro optics; Polarization converting element; Selective mode coupling; Specialty fibers

Abstract

Bending loss is the biggest drawback to hollow waveguides used for light delivery applications such as laser ablation. One way to overcome this limitation without changing the fiber design or fabrication is to engineer the input light to excite specific modes with better optical properties. Our first order calculations of the transmission and bending losses inside the cylindrical hollow waveguides showed that the TE 01 mode suffers the least amount of losses. To selectively excite this mode, it is desired to design an optical component that converts incident linearly polarized light into a rotating wave similar to the TE 01 mode. This work focuses on the design and fabrication of a subwavelength structure that converts the input polarization into that of the TE 01 mode.

Publication Date

7-21-2005

Publication Title

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volume

5720

Number of Pages

212-221

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.593226

Socpus ID

21844460804 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/21844460804

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