Abstract
We report a highly tunable liquid-filled photonic bandgap fiber (LF-PBGF) based on both bend and temperature change. By bending the LF-PBGF and changing its temperature, the blue shift of the red edge of the bandgap resulting from bend loss and temperature increasing is speeded up, and higher bandwidth tunability is achieved. Numerical and experimental results are presented, and 177-nm bandwidth tunability is achieved by tuning the temperature of the LF-PBGF with bend radius of 5 mm from 40℃ to 60℃, and the average compression rate is 8.85 nm/℃.
© 2011 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
Lei Wei, Thomas Tanggaard Alkeskjold, and Anders Bjarklev
JWA23 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC) 2010
Tiesheng Wu, Li Wang, Zhe Wang, and Shuyang Hu
831126 Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP) 2011
Lara Scolari, Sebastian Gauza, Haiqing Xianyu, Lei Zhai, Lars Eskildsen, Thomas Tanggaard Alkeskjold, Shin-Tson Wu, and Anders Bjarklev
OSD29 Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and their Applications (WSOF) 2008