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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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Demonstration of a waveguide regime for a silica hollow--core microstructured optical fiber with a negative curvature of the core boundary in the spectral region > 3.5 μm.
Andrey D. Pryamikov,A. S. Biriukov,Alexey F. Kosolapov,Victor G. Plotnichenko,Sergei L. Semjonov,Evgeny M. Dianov +5 more
TL;DR: It is shown that HC MOFs with the cladding consisting only of one row of silica capillaries allows to guide light from the near to mid infrared despite of high material losses ofsilica in this spectral region.
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Method and apparatus for performing optical imaging using frequency-domain interferometry
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System and method for optical coherence imaging
TL;DR: In this paper, a system and method for imaging of a sample, e.g., biological sample, are provided, where at least one source electro-magnetic radiation forwarded to the sample and a reference may be generated.
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Ten years of nonlinear optics in photonic crystal fibre
John M. Dudley,J. Roy Taylor +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a concise and critical summary of the current state of nonlinear optics in photonic crystal fiber, identifying some of the most important and interesting recent developments in the field.
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Terahertz pulse propagation in plastic photonic crystal fibers
TL;DR: Guided-wave singlemode propagation of sub-ps terahertz (THz) pulses in a plastic photonic crystal fiber has been experimentally demonstrated for the first time to the best of our knowledge as discussed by the authors.
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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.