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Optics Letters
|September 16, 2009
Abstract:
Based on a stress analysis of bow-tie optical fibers, a mechanism for true single-mode single-polarization operation of bow-tie optical fibers is presented. The y-polarized mode can have a loss of the order of 10 dB/m, while the x-polarized mode remains well confined and without loss.

