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Microstructure ring fiber for supporting higher-order orbital angular momentum modes with flattened dispersion in broad waveband

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We design and numerically simulate a microstructure ring fiber, which supports 146 orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes at 1.1 μm and 70 OAM modes at 2.0 μm with flattened dispersion and low nonlinear coefficient. The fiber consists of an air hole at the center and a high refractive index ring between two well-ordered air hole rings in the cladding. It is found that the number of well-separated OAM modes decreases linearly with the increasing wavelength. Moreover, the waveguide dispersions of the modes are flat with wavelengths, which has a minimum variation of 2.92416 ps/nm/km over 900 nm bandwidth from 1.1 to 2.0 μm for HE13,1 mode. In addition, the nonlinear coefficient keeps lower than 1.8/W/km. The designed fiber may pave the way to applications in fiber-based OAM mode-division-multiplexing systems.

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National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant nos. 61875058, 11874018, 61875242, 11474108); Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou (Grant no. 201607010245); Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (no. 2018A030313347).

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  1. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices and Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Special Fiber Photonic Devices and Applications, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510006, Guangdong, China

    Shu-Hong Huang, Qi-Chang Ma, Hong-Zhan Liu, Hu Cui, Zhi-Chao Luo, Wen-Cheng Xu & Ai-Ping Luo

  2. School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan, 528000, China

    Wei-Cheng Chen

  3. Education Ministry’s Key Laboratory of Laser Life Science and Institute of Laser Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, Guangdong, China

    Xiao-Bo Xing

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Huang, SH., Ma, QC., Chen, WC. et al. Microstructure ring fiber for supporting higher-order orbital angular momentum modes with flattened dispersion in broad waveband. Appl. Phys. B 125, 197 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-019-7307-8

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