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Measurements of sensitivity to hydrostatic pressure and temperature in highly birefringent photonic crystal fibers

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We report on experimental studies of polarimetric sensitivity to hydrostatic pressure and temperature in two highly birefringent index guided photonic crystal fibers, in which birefringence is induced by one row of the cladding holes with diameters smaller than the other cladding holes. The sensitivity measurements were carried out in the spectral range from 0.6 μm to 1.6 μm. Our results show that absolute value of the polarimetric sensitivity to hydrostatic pressure can reach 23 rad/MPa × m, which is almost one order of magnitude higher than in conventional fibers with elliptical core. Simultaneously, polarimetric sensitivity to temperature is at least two orders of magnitude lower than in conventional highly birefringent fibers. Moreover, we proved experimentally that one of the investigated fibers is completely insensitive to temperature at certain wavelength.

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  1. Institute of Physics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wyb. Wyspianskiego 27, 50-370, Wroclaw, Poland

    Tadeusz Martynkien, Marcin Szpulak, Gabriela Statkiewicz, Grzegorz Golojuch, Jacek Olszewski & Waclaw Urbanczyk

  2. Department of Applied Physics and Photonics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Tadeusz Martynkien, Tomasz Nasilowski, Francis Berghmans & Hugo Thienpont

  3. Laboratory of Optical Fiber Technology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Pl. M. Curie-Sklodowskiej 3, 20-031, Lublin, Poland

    Jan Wojcik, Pawel Mergo & Mariusz Makara

  4. SCK·CEN, Boeretang, Mol 2400, Belgium

    Francis Berghmans

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Martynkien, T., Szpulak, M., Statkiewicz, G. et al. Measurements of sensitivity to hydrostatic pressure and temperature in highly birefringent photonic crystal fibers. Opt Quant Electron 39, 481–489 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-007-9084-6

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