Abstract

This Letter proposes a highly birefringent one-air-hole panda fiber, which is fabricated by corroding a single stress zone of the traditional panda-type polarization-maintaining fiber (PMF). An additional geometric asymmetry is induced in the fiber to increase the birefringence effect and enhance the light–matter interaction, which improves the performance of the sensor and the device applications of the special fiber. A theoretical and experimental analysis of the one-air-hole panda fiber demonstrates that the birefringence of the fiber can be of the order of 10⁻³, which is one order of magnitude higher than that of the traditional panda-type fiber. The corroded region provides a microchannel to be filled with a functional material to compose optical fiber sensors; a sample of a salt solution was filled into the microchannel to measure the refractive index with a sensitivity of 3760 nm/RIU (refractive index units).

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