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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2009
Victor Il'ich Kopp, Fair Lawn, NJ (US);
Victor M. Churikov, Wyckoff, NJ (US);
Guoyin Zhang, Clifton, NJ (US);
Sheng Zhang, Hackensack, NJ (US);
Jonathan Singer, New Hope, PA (US);
Victor Il'ich Kopp, Fair Lawn, NJ (US);
Victor M. Churikov, Wyckoff, NJ (US);
Guoyin Zhang, Clifton, NJ (US);
Sheng Zhang, Hackensack, NJ (US);
Jonathan Singer, New Hope, PA (US);
Chiral Photonics, Inc., Pine Brook, NJ (US);
Abstract
A chiral optical fiber polarizer is provided that is capable of being fabricated in-line along a conventional polarization maintaining fiber having external structural element(s), positioned between two optical fiber portions, and includes a modified central portion with altered fiber cladding interface elements on each side thereof. The modified central portion includes at least one diameter reduced sub-section that allows a light signal to propagate simultaneously in the core and in at least one external structure element, and at least one diameter expanded sub-section that allows the light signal to propagate substantially in the core, where the modified central portion is configured to be operable to serve as a polarizer for light signals with linear polarization components.