Bend Loss in Negative Curvature Fibers with Truncated Cladding Tubes

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Wei, Chengli, Curtis R. Menyuk, and Jonathan Hu. “Bend Loss in Negative Curvature Fibers with Truncated Cladding Tubes.” In OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (AP) 2020 (IPR, NP, NOMA, Networks, PVLED, PSC, SPPCom, SOF) (2020), Paper NoM4G.7, NoM4G.7. Optica Publishing Group, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1364/NOMA.2020.NoM4G.7.

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Abstract

We study negative curvature fibers with truncated cladding tubes. The fiber with truncated cladding tubes has lower bend loss compared to the un-truncated fiber when the bend radius is between 4 cm and 7 cm.