Abstract
We report on low-loss patch cords composed of a highly reproducible low-loss
fusion splicing of photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) with a standard single mode fiber
(SMF). Distinct from other papers in this area we report on the results for different
types of PCFs, including LMA fibers with similar to a SMF core size and a mode field
diameter (MFD), as well as polarization maintaining (PM) Bow-Tie PCF with an elliptical
GeO<sub>2</sub> doped core and also a suspended-core (SC) PCF with a tiny core. We
show that all studied splices between SMF and PCFs exhibit dispersive and
non-reciprocal, in view of a light propagation direction, transmission losses. Defined
as a larger decrease of a transmitted optical power comparing both propagation
directions, achieved splicing losses, are equal to 0.46 ± 0.03 dB, 0.34 ± 0.01 dB, 0.67 ±
0.17 dB and 3.09 ± 0.36 dB at 1550 nm for LMA8, LMA10, Bow-Tie PCF and SC PCFs,
respectively. Moreover, additionally to developed low-loss splicing, we report on
low-loss patch cords for all mentioned above PCFs spliced on both ends with SMF pigtails
ended with FC/APC connectors achieving the total losses at 1550 nm equal to 1.07 ± 0.07
dB for LMA8, $0.72 ± 0.20 dB for LMA10, 1.30 ± 0.06 dB for Bow-Tie PCF, and 9.36 ± 0.20
dB for SC PCF.
© 2011 IEEE
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