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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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Coherent fiber supercontinuum for biophotonics.
Haohua Tu,Stephen A. Boppart +1 more
TL;DR: Nonlinear fiber optics and femtosecond laser development are the focus of this review, because they can be integrated into a low-cost portable biophotonics source platform, enabling new applications such as point-of-care coherent optical biomedical imaging.
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Hollow multilayer photonic bandgap fibers for NIR applications
Ken Kuriki,Ofer Shapira,Shandon Dee Hart,Gilles J. Benoit,Yuka Kuriki,Jean F. Viens,Mehmet Bayindir,John D. Joannopoulos,Yoel Fink +8 more
TL;DR: Hollow-core cylindrical photonic bandgap fibers with fundamental Photonic bandgaps at near-infrared wavelengths, from 0.85 to 2.28 microm are reported, to the best of the authors' knowledge, the smallest period lengths and highest period counts reported to date for hollow PBG fibers.
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Tunable microfluidic optical fiber
Peter Mach,M. J. Dolinski,Kirk W. Baldwin,John A. Rogers,Charles Kerbage,Robert S. Windeler,Benjamin J. Eggleton +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a class of active, tunable optical fiber that incorporates multiple microfluidic plugs into interior fiber microchannels, which can be used to control the positions and optical properties of these plugs, using actuators and pumps formed on the fiber surface.
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Microstructured optical fibers: where's the edge?
Boris T. Kuhlmey,Ross C. McPhedran,C. Martijn de Sterke,Peter A. Robinson,Gilles Renversez,Daniel Maystre +5 more
TL;DR: It is established that Microstructured Optical Fibers have a fundamental mode cutoff, marking the transition between modal confinement and non-confinement, and insight into the nature of this transition is given through two asymptotic models that provide a mapping to conventional fibers.
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Review on structural, thermal, optical and spectroscopic properties of tellurium oxide based glasses for fibre optic and waveguide applications
Animesh Jha,Billy Richards,Gin Jose,T. Toney Fernandez,Clare J. Hill,Joris Lousteau,Purushottam Joshi +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the structural, thermal, optical and spectroscopic properties of tellurium oxide (TeO2) glasses for their applications in fiber optic and waveguide devices are investigated.
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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.