Martin A. Finger

TL;DR: In this paper, a stack-and-draw technique was used to construct a ZBLAN photonic crystal fiber with a high air-filling fraction, a small solid core, nanoscale features and near-perfect structure.

TL;DR: A novel source of twin beams based on modulational instability in high-pressure argon-filled hollow-core kagome-style photonic-crystal fiber that outperforms all previously reported squeezed-vacuum twin-beam sources in terms of brightness and low mode content is reported.

TL;DR: By introducing an empirical wavelength-dependent core radius, the range of validity of the capillary approximation is extended out to a wavelength of at least 0.98√(a(AP)t), independently of the gas-filling pressure.

TL;DR: A novel ZBLAN PCF with six cores, each containing a central nanobore of a diameter ∼330 nm, and the presence of thenanobore significantly modifies the dispersion, strongly influencing the dynamics and the extent of supercontinuum generation is reported.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors vary the time-frequency mode structure of ultrafast pulse-pumped modulational instability (MI) twin beams in an argon-filled hollow-core kagome-style photonic crystal fiber by adjusting the pressure, pump pulse chirp, fiber length and parametric gain.