Abstract

Microstructure optical fibers [1,2] and photonic crystal fibers [3] differ significantly from conventional waveguides, exhibiting properties that cannot be realized in standard fibers. While conventional single-mode silica-fiber designs shift the zero-dispersion wavelength only to wavelengths greater than 1.28-µm, microstructure fibers have been shown to exhibit anomalous group-velocity dispersion at wavelengths below 800 nm [4].

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