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Single-Mode Photonic Band Gap Guidance of Light in Air.
R.F. Cregan,Brian Joseph Mangan,Jonathan Knight,Tim A. Birks,P. St. J. Russell,Peter John Roberts,Douglas C. Allan +6 more
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The confinement of light within a hollow core (a large air hole) in a silica-air photonic crystal fiber is demonstrated and certain wavelength bands are confined and guided down the fiber.Abstract:
The confinement of light within a hollow core (a large air hole) in a silica-air photonic crystal fiber is demonstrated Only certain wavelength bands are confined and guided down the fiber, each band corresponding to the presence of a full two-dimensional band gap in the photonic crystal cladding Single-mode vacuum waveguides have a multitude of potential applications from ultrahigh-power transmission to the guiding of cold atomsread more
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Anti-Resonant Hollow Core Fibers with Modified Shape of the Core for the Better Optical Performance in the Visible Spectral Region-A Numerical Study.
TL;DR: Numerical studies of several different structures of anti-resonant, hollow core optical fibers based on the Kagomé lattice concept results in a significant improvement of some important optical fiber parameters, such as confinement loss, bending loss, and dispersion parameter.
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Phase‐matched coherent anti‐Stokes Raman scattering in isolated air‐guided modes of hollow photonic‐crystal fibers
Stanislav O. Konorov,Andrei B. Fedotov,Evgenii E. Serebryannikov,V. P. Mitrokhin,D. A. Sidorov-Biryukov,Aleksei M. Zheltikov +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a single-mode CARS tuned to a Raman resonance with 2331 cm−1 Q-branch vibrations of molecular nitrogen filling the hollow core of the photonic crystal fiber is demonstrated using the second-harmonic output of a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser and wavelength-tunable dye-laser radiation as pump fields.
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Guidance varieties in photonic crystal fibers
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the properties of dielectric optical waveguides that are translationally invariant along the field propagation direction and showed that different modes can copropagate in some photonic crystal fibers with different guidance mechanisms, such as index guidance and photonic bandgap guidance.
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One-dimensional chiral photonic band gap structure analyzed by non-symmetric transmission-line method
Zhongyin Xiao,Zi Hua Wang +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the reflection coefficient of multi-layer chiral media is derived by non-symmetric transmission line method and applied to one-dimensional (1-D) chiral photonic crystal structure, which is composed of thin chiral layers sandwiched by air.
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Brillouin scattering in photonic crystal fiber : from fundamentals to fiber optic sensors
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a comprehensive theoretical and experimental investigation of both forward and backward Brillouin scattering in next generation photonic crystal fibers in view of potential applications to telecommunication networks and smart optical fiber sensors.
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All-silica single-mode optical fiber with photonic crystal cladding
TL;DR: The fabrication of a new type of optical waveguide: the photonic crystal fiber that supports a single robust low-loss guided mode over a very broad spectral range of at least 458-1550 nm.
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Endlessly single-mode photonic crystal fiber.
TL;DR: An effective-index model confirms that an all-silica optical fiber made by embedding a central core in a two-dimensional photonic crystal with a micrometer-spaced hexagonal array of air holes can be single mode for any wavelength.
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Hollow metallic and dielectric waveguides for long distance optical transmission and lasers
TL;DR: In this paper, the field configurations and propagation constants of a hollow circular waveguide made of dielectric material or metal for application as an optical waveguide were determined and the increase of attenuation due to curvature of the axis was also determined.
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Photonic Band Gap Guidance in Optical Fibers
TL;DR: A fundamentally different type of optical waveguide structure is demonstrated, in which light is confined to the vicinity of a low-index region by a two-dimensional photonic band gap crystal.
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Full 2-D photonic bandgaps in silica/air structures
TL;DR: In this paper, full 2D photonic bandgaps are demonstrated for all polarisations in structures with refractive index contrast as small as that of silica and air, and a new type of optical fiber based on these structures is proposed.