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A novel high-birefringence hollow-core anti-resonant THz fiber is proposed in this paper. This fiber has a simple structure which consists of only ten Topas tubes. High birefringence is achieved by introducing two large tubes. The first two resonant frequencies are 1.44 and 2.88 THz by fixing tube thickness at 0.09 mm, which makes two low-loss transmission windows exist in the frequency range from 0.8 to 3.0 THz. The lowest loss is 2.10 dB/m occurring at 1.2 THz in the first transmission window and 1.68 dB/m at 2.34 THz in the second transmission window. By optimizing the structure parameters, high birefringence above 7 × 10−4 in the frequency range from 1.0 to 1.24 THz are obtained. The highest birefringence is up to 8.7 × 10−4 at 1.04 THz. Birefringence can be further increased to the order of 10−3 by adjusting the structure parameters at the cost of loss increasing and the bandwidth decreasing. In addition, bent performance of this fiber is also discussed. In addition, this fiber can keep good performance when it is bent for x-direction. At the bend radius of 15 cm, the loss and birefringence has a more slightly change in the first transmission window than the second transmission window. The first transmission window own much better bent-insensitive characteristics.
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This work is supported by the National Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61575016 and 61475016) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 2017YJS003).
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Yan, S., Lou, S., Wang, X. et al. High-birefringence hollow-core anti-resonant THz fiber. Opt Quant Electron 50, 162 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-018-1402-7
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