Abstract
Abstract
A type of anti-resonant hollow-core optical fiber consisting of Bragg elements is proposed. The confinement and bending losses are numerically simulated using the finite element method. It is found that the introduction of concentric rings to form anti-resonant structure can reduce the mode transmission loss by 2 ∼ 4 orders of magnitude compared with the anti-resonant element composed of only one dielectric layer, therefore it can achieve ultra-low loss optical transmission. The influence of the structural parameters on the confinement loss was investigated. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that each dielectric layer independently contributes to the confinement of the core modes. It is also found that the Bragg reflection structure can effectively suppress the coupling between core and cladding modes, and achieve broadband low-loss optical transmission under small bending radius. In particular, it can achieve a low transmission loss of less than 0.1 dB km−1 over a wide wavelength range of 600 nm at the bending radius of 3 cm.