Author Affiliations
Abstract
1 Inst. Microsystems, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
2 Dept. Opto-Electron. Eng., Huazhong University of Science and Technology
3 Dept. Appl. Phys., He'nan Polytechnic University
4 Digital Eng. Res. Center, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
5 Dept. Mechanical Eng., Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA
Influence of thermal-mechanical properties on the features of the panda polarization-maintaining optical fiber (PMF) in fabrication process is studied in detail by finite element method (FEM). The stress birefringence is 2.13443*10^(-4) obtained by the static analysis and 2.1269*10^(-4) by dynamic analysis. The difference in simulation by two methods is around 0.4%. The non-uniformity of stress birefringence in the fiber core is about 1.6%. Predicted results demonstrate that effect of the thermal conductive parameter on fiber thermal stress dominates. The high and uniform stress birefringence in the fiber core is obtained by appropriately selecting suitable stress region area and position.
060.0060 fiber optics and optical communications 060.2310 fiber optics 060.2420 fibers polarization-maintaining 060.2430 fibers single-mode Chinese Optics Letters
2005, 3(1): 0142
