Large Mode Area photonic crystal fibers – Polarization-Maintaining
Our Large Mode Area photonic crystal fibers are designed for diffraction-limited high-power delivery. The large mode area prevents nonlinear effects and material damage.
With standard fibers, you trade large mode areas for single-mode operation. With our Large Mode Area PM fibers, you get single-mode, polarization-maintaining operation in a wide range of wavelengths.
Key Features
Endlessly single-mode operation
Handles high powers
Low nonlinearities
Low fiber loss
Wavelength-independent MFD
Polarization-maintaining
Our LMA polarization-maintaining single-mode fibers are optimized for low loss and an almost constant mode field diameter. With standard technology, you trade large mode areas for single-mode operation. Our crystal fiber Large Mode Area polarization-maintaining fibers are endlessly single-mode (i.e. it has no higher-order mode cut-off) and deliver excellent mode quality at all wavelengths.
The PM-1550 has a strong form-birefringence and is optimized to create a short beat length between the polarizations. It has a reduced bend-coupling between polarization states, improved polarization extinction ratio, and is 30 times less temperature-sensitive than conventional high-birefringence fiber.
The LMA fibers are available in polarizing and polarization-maintaining versions.
For fibers with connectors, please see our aeroGUIDE patch cords or our SuperK CONNECT fiber delivery system.
Want more details?
If you want more details about how to handle optical fibers: Strip, cleave, and couple them, we have some application notes for you.
Specifications
1) TIA-445-80-C standard.
2) 16 cm bend diameter.
3) AKA PXtalk on a 2 m sample.
1) Difference in % between the largest and smallest cladding diameter.
