Small core silica holey fibers: Nonlinearity and confinement loss trade-offs
Small core silica holey fibers: Nonlinearity and confinement loss trade-offs
Holey fibers with small-core dimensions relative to the optical wavelength and large air-filling fractions offer tight mode confinement and are therefore attractive for highly nonlinear fiber applications. We investigated the role of confinement loss in these small-core fibers to optimize the design of practical highly nonlinear fibers.
We found that silica holey fibers can exhibit effective nonlinearities as great as 52 W-1 km-1 and that the confinement loss can be less than the losses of standard fiber types. We show that the dispersive properties of some of the designs are suitable for a range of device applications.
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Finazzi, Vittoria
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Monro, Tanya M.
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Richardson, David J.
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July 2003
Finazzi, Vittoria
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Monro, Tanya M.
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Richardson, David J.
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Finazzi, Vittoria, Monro, Tanya M. and Richardson, David J.
(2003)
Small core silica holey fibers: Nonlinearity and confinement loss trade-offs.
Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 20 (7), .
(doi:10.1364/JOSAB.20.001427).
Abstract
Holey fibers with small-core dimensions relative to the optical wavelength and large air-filling fractions offer tight mode confinement and are therefore attractive for highly nonlinear fiber applications. We investigated the role of confinement loss in these small-core fibers to optimize the design of practical highly nonlinear fibers.
We found that silica holey fibers can exhibit effective nonlinearities as great as 52 W-1 km-1 and that the confinement loss can be less than the losses of standard fiber types. We show that the dispersive properties of some of the designs are suitable for a range of device applications.
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Published date: July 2003
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/13891
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