Spun elliptically birefringent photonic crystal fibre.
Elliptically birefringent fibre has been fabricated by spinning the preform of a highly linearly birefringent photonic crystal fibre (PCF) during the drawing process. The resulting Spun Highly Birefringent (SHi-Bi) PCF offers intrinsic sensitivity to magnetic fields through the Faraday effect without the high inherent temperature sensitivities suffered by conventional spun stress birefringence fibres. The ellipticity of the birefringence has been measured and temperature independence has been demonstrated.
Michie
Andrew
A
Canning
John
J
Bassett
Ian
I
Haywood
John
J
Digweed
Katja
K
Aslund
Mattias
M
Ashton
Brian
B
Stevenson
Michael
M
Digweed
Justin
J
Lau
Alfred
A
Scandurra
Daniel
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