Title :
Novel fabrication method of highly-nonlinear silica holey fibres
Author :
Mukasa, Kazunori ; Petrovich, Marco N. ; Poletti, Francesco ; Webb, Andrew ; Hayes, John ; Van Brakel, Adriaan ; Correa, R. Amezcua ; Provost, Lionel ; Sahu, Jayanta ; Petropoulos, Periklis ; Richardson, David J.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton
Abstract :
We present a novel and simple method of producing small core silica holey fibres with nonlinearity close to the maximum achievable. An effective area of 1.6 mum2 with a loss of 0.18 dB/m at 1.55 mum were achieved.
Keywords :
holey fibres; silicon compounds; fabrication method; highly nonlinear silica holey fibres; wavelength 1.55 mum; Absorption; Drilling; Fabrication; Fiber nonlinear optics; Hafnium; Holey fibers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Preforms; Silicon compounds; (060.2280) Fiber design and fabrication; (060.2400) Fiber properties; (190.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627694
