Abstract

We investigated theoretically chiral negatively refractive fibers that guide transverse electromagnetic modes. In this Letter, novel properties of such fibers are presented, including arbitrariness of modal field and arbitrarily scalable core radius. Based on these novel properties, we conceptually propose a new type of space-division multiplexing that uses different spatial positions of the core of such fascinating fibers as different data paths.

© 2014 Optical Society of America

Guided modes in chiral fibers

Yusheng Cao, Junqing Li, and Qiyao Su
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28(2) 319-324 (2011)

Fiber Bragg gratings in hole-assisted multicore fiber for space division multiplexing

K. Stępień, M. Slowikowski, T. Tenderenda, M. Murawski, M. Szymanski, L. Szostkiewicz, M. Becker, M. Rothhardt, H. Bartelt, P. Mergo, L. R. Jaroszewicz, and T. Nasilowski
Opt. Lett. 39(12) 3571-3574 (2014)

Modal bifurcation in chiral multilayered fibers

Yusheng Cao and Junqing Li
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 30(8) 2168-2173 (2013)

Circularly polarized guided modes in dielectrically chiral photonic crystal fiber

Junqing Li, Qiyao Su, and Yusheng Cao
Opt. Lett. 35(16) 2720-2722 (2010)

Characteristics of surface plasmon polaritons at a chiral–metal interface

Guangcan Mi and Vien Van
Opt. Lett. 39(7) 2028-2031 (2014)