High-performance optical fiber polarizers based on long-period gratings in birefringent optical fibers |
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| Authors: | B. Ortega L. Dong W.F. Liu J.P. de Sandro L. Reekie S.I. Tsypina V.N. Bagratashvili R.I. Laming |
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| Affiliation: | Dept. de Commun., Valencia Univ., Spain; |
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| Abstract: | We have demonstrated the feasibility of achieving high-performance fiber polarizers (insertion loss <0.5 dB, extinction ratio >30 dB), based on polarization mode dispersion in a long-period grating. Chirped operation with 100-nm bandwidth has also been achieved, showing the possibility of a broad-band device. |
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