[TuE2] Advanced Fibers and Their Applications

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM JST(2:30 AM - 2:45 AM UTC)

[TuE2-2] Polarization Maintaining Fiber with Fluorine-Doped Stress Rods

○Ming-Jun Li¹, Jeffery S Stone¹, Xin Chen¹, Jason E. Hurley ¹ (1. Corning Incorporated (United States of America))

Keywords:

Fiber design,fabrication and characterization,fibers for optical interconnection

A novel polarization-maintaining fiber with fluorine-doped stress rods has been designed and fabricated. The fiber exhibits optical properties compatible with standard single-mode fiber and polarization extinction ratio of 41 dB/m at 1310 nm.