Reduced micro-deformation attenuation in large-mode area photonic crystal fibers for visible applications
Optics
2007-09-05 v1
Abstract
We consider large-mode area photonic crystal fibers for visible applications where micro-deformation induced attenuation becomes a potential problem when the effective area A_eff is sufficiently large compared to lambda^2. We argue how a slight increase in fiber diameter D can be used in screening the high-frequency components of the micro-deformation spectrum mechanically and we confirm this experimentally for both 15 and 20 micron core fibers. For typical bending-radii (R~16 cm) the operating band-width increases by ~3-400 nm to the low-wavelength side.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0306077,
title = {Reduced micro-deformation attenuation in large-mode area photonic crystal fibers for visible applications},
author = {M. D. Nielsen and N. A. Mortensen and J. R. Folkenberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0306077},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Accepted for Optics Letters