title: Microstructured optical fiber for single-polarization air guidance.
abstract: An air-core microstructured fiber design that supports a single-polarization, circularly symmetric nondegenerate mode is presented. The fiber design is modeled directly, and the microstructured cladding is analyzed by use of band diagrams to elucidate the mechanism through which polarization nondegeneracy is achieved.
authors.affiliation: Australian Photonics Cooperative Research Centre, Optical Fibre Technology Centre and School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. a.argyros@oftc.usyd.edu.au
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Argyros
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Issa
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bassett
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: van Eijkelenborg