Low-loss criterion and effective area considerations for photonic crystal fibers

2003/02/21 by Niels Asger Mortensen, Jacob Riis Folkenberg
Physics and Astronomy · #physics.optics

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1464-4258/5/3/303

published as J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 5, 163 (2003). · Accepted for Journal of Optics A - Pure and Applied Optics

arxiv created 2003/02/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We study the class of endlessly single-mode all-silica photonic crystal fibers with a triangular air-hole cladding. We consider the sensibility to longitudinal nonuniformities and the consequences and limitations for realizing low-loss large-mode area photonic crystal fibers. We also discuss the dominating scattering mechanism and experimentally we confirm that both macro and micro-bending can be the limiting factor.

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