Multi-layered cladding based ultra-low loss, single mode antiresonant hollow core fibers

Abstract

In reality, an efficient platform for high-power laser delivery is highly important, which can be justified by readily available fiber lasers, and hollow-core fiber can be the best platform for guiding high optical power over long distances. The constraints include designing new cladding geometry, which may lead to a higher laser induced damage threshold in the fiber’s structure, having low losses along with a single mode nature. This article reports a new antiresonant fiber that has a hollow core and a triple-layered cladding configuration with only circular tube elements. The effects of multiple layers corresponding to the number of tube rings in the cladding geometry are well explored, which leads to understanding the physical insight of inter-layers. In comparison to double-layered cladding elements fiber, the proposed fiber significantly reduces loss by an order of two and reveals a minimum leakage loss of 5.82 × 10⁻⁵ dB/km at the chosen wavelength of 1.06 µm through the proper arrangement of cladding elements. We achieved a maximal higher order mode extinction ratio of about 10⁴ (indicates the excellent single mode properties) and comparatively a little bending-induced loss of 9.00 × 10⁻⁴ dB/km, when the radius of bending is 14 cm. As a result, our studies on new multilayer fiber designs are not only useful for delivering high laser power but also serve as guidelines for the experimental realization of future multilayered cladding fibers.