Title :
Strictly-bound modes of an idealised hollow-core fibre without a photonic bandgap
Author :
Birks, TA ; Bird, DM ; Benabid, F. ; Roberts, PJ
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Bath, Bath, UK
Abstract :
We describe an idealised "kagome-like" hollow-core fibre that supports a mode that is strictly localised (that is, exponentially confined, without leakage loss) despite the co-existence of cladding modes with the same effective index and symmetry.
Keywords :
glass fibres; holey fibres; optical fibre cladding; optical fibre testing; optical glass; photonic band gap; photonic crystals; refractive index; cladding modes; fibre index distribution; glass webs; hollow-core fibre; localised mode; periodic array; photonic bandgap; photonic crystal fibres; Arrays; Equations; Glass; Indexes; Optimized production technology; Photonic band gap; Photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Torino
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8536-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8534-5
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621219
