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In this paper we report on the fabrication of highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber with a photonic cladding composed of elliptical holes ordered in a rectangular lattice. The fiber features a group birefringence G of 0.82×10−4 at 725 nm. We discuss the influence of structural parameters including the ellipticity of the air holes and the aspect ratio of the rectangular lattice on the birefringence and on the modal properties of the fiber. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We designed, fabricated, and characterized birefringent holey fibers with zero polarimetric sensitivity to temperature. The sensitivity measurements were carried out in a wide spectral range of 0.68–1.55 μm in fibers with different hole and pitch values and with birefringence induced by a pair of large holes adjacent to the core. Our results show that zero sensitivity to temperature can be obtained at certain wavelengths for the bare fibers with properly adjusted geometrical parameters. Moreover, the spectral measurements of the sensitivity to temperature are in good agreement with the modeling results for all the investigated fibers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We investigated a particular design of a highly birefringent PCF with attractive features for pressure sensing applications. A plane-wave method together with the finite element method were used to numerically calculate phase and group modal birefringence, pressure and temperature sensitivities of our fiber. The simulation results together with the experiments demonstrate a considerable difference between a very high phase birefringence ( B ∼ 10−3) and a very low negative group birefringence ( G −10−3). Our fiber exhibits a low and positive temperature sensitivity ( KT < 0.1 rad/(K⋅m)), and relatively high and negative mechanical (pressure) sensitivity ( Kp ≤ −10 rad/(MPa⋅m)), which supports its possible use as a mechanical sensor that does not require any temperature compensation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]