Use of fingers in the core to reduce leakage loss in air-core photonic bandgap fibers

Jonathan Hu; Curtis R. Menyuk

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and The National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
OSA Technical Digest Series (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2007),
paper OML6

Use of fingers in the core to reduce leakage loss in air-core photonic bandgap fibers

Jonathan Hu and Curtis R. Menyuk

Optical Fiber Communication Conference 2007

Anaheim, California United States
25–29 March 2007
ISBN: 1-55752-830-6

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J. Hu and C. R. Menyuk, "Use of fingers in the core to reduce leakage loss in air-core photonic bandgap fibers," in Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and The National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, OSA Technical Digest Series (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2007), paper OML6.

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Abstract

We show that the leakage loss with small fingers pointing into the core is three orders of magnitude lower than the loss without small fingers. A PBGF core design with low leakage loss is suggested.

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