Filter of optical vortices: highly twisted high-birefringence optical fibers

C N Alexeyev; H G Galamaga; A V Volyar

doi:10.1364/ol.31.000008

Filter of optical vortices: highly twisted high-birefringence optical fibers

Opt Lett. 2006 Jan 1;31(1):8-10. doi: 10.1364/ol.31.000008.

Authors

C N Alexeyev¹, H G Galamaga, A V Volyar

Affiliation

¹ Physical Department, Taurida National V. Vernandsky University, Vernadsky Avenue 4, Simferopol 95007, Crimea, Ukraine.

PMID: 16419860
DOI: 10.1364/ol.31.000008

Abstract

Modes and bandgap structure of highly twisted high-birefringence weakly guiding fibers are studied in the scalar approximation. It is shown that within the gap the system can serve as a filter of circular optical vortices.