Abstract

We present a randomly disordered silica-air optical fiber featuring a 28.5% air filling fraction in the structured region, and low attenuation below 1 dB per meter at visible wavelengths. The quality of images transported through this fiber is shown to be comparable to, or even better than, that of images sent through commercial multicore imaging fiber. We demonstrate robust high-quality optical image transfer through 90 cm-long fibers with disordered silica-air structure, more than an order of magnitude improvement compared to previous disordered fiber imaging distances. The effects of variations of wavelength and feature size on transported image quality are investigated experimentally.

Details

Title
Image Transport Through Meter-Long Randomly Disordered Silica-Air Optical Fiber
Author
Zhao, Jian 1 ; Lopez, Jose Enrique Antonio 1 ; Zhu, Zheyuan 1 ; Zheng, Donghui 2 ; Pang, Shuo 1 ; Rodrigo Amezcua Correa 1 ; Schülzgen, Axel 1 

 CREOL, College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA 
 CREOL, College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA; School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China 
Pages
1-7
Publication year
2018
Publication date
Feb 2018
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2002472715
Copyright
© 2018. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.