Chinese Optics Letters, 2019, 17 (12): 120602, Published Online: Nov. 27, 2019
Ultra-broadband highly efficient mode converter at 1 μm fabricated by a line-focused CO2 laser
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Fig. 1. (a) Mode coupling scheme of an LPFG mode converter. (b) The density profile of the mode and four high-order vector beams ( , , , ) at 1064 nm, and their component of electric-field simulations with the standard step index fiber of SMF-28e (the core and cladding diameters are ∼8.2 μm and 125 μm, the refractive indices of the core and cladding are 1.4689 and 1.4630 at 1064 nm) by the finite element method.
Fig. 2. Fabrication setup: SC, supercontinuum light source; OSA, optical spectrum analyzer; PC, polarization controller.
Fig. 4. (a) Simulation PMC of the fiber of SMF-28e; (b) the measured transmission spectrum of the mode converter.
Fig. 5. (a) Transmission spectrum of the LPFG with different grating periods. (b) The mode profile of the LPFG with different periods. (c) The beam profile when the output passes a linear polarizer with different orientations.
Xin Tian, Hao Li, Le Liu, Meng Wang, Xiaoming Xi, Zefeng Wang. Ultra-broadband highly efficient mode converter at 1 μm fabricated by a line-focused CO2 laser[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2019, 17(12): 120602.