Title :
Negative curvature fibers with reduced leakage loss
Author :
Belardi, Walter ; Knight, Jonathan C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Bath, Bath, UK
Abstract :
We describe improved designs for “negative curvature” hollow core anti-resonant fibers. Numerical simulations show that introducing additional silica rings into the cladding results in a major reduction in the fiber leakage losses, for realizable fiber structures.
Keywords :
optical fibre cladding; optical fibre losses; silicon compounds; SiO2; cladding; fiber leakage losses; fiber structures; hollow core anti-resonant fibers; negative curvature fibers; numerical simulations; reduced leakage loss; silica rings; Glass; Optical fiber losses; Optimized production technology; Silicon compounds; Structural rings;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.Th2A.45
