• DocumentCode
    3527266
  • Title

    Single-Mode Tellurite Glass Holey Fiber with Extremely Large Mode Area for Infrared Applications

  • Author

    Feng, Xiaowei ; Flanagan, J.C. ; Frampton, K.E. ; Petropoulos, P. ; White, Neil M. ; Loh, Wei H. ; Rutt, H.N. ; Richardson, D.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    24-28 Feb. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We report the fabrication of a very large mode area tellurite holey fiber from an extruded preform. Robust single-mode guidance with 3000 μm2 effective mode area was achieved and 2.9 dB/m loss was measured at 1.55 μm.
  • Keywords
    holey fibres; optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre losses; optical glass; photonic crystals; sodium compounds; tellurium compounds; zinc compounds; TeO2-ZnO-Na2O; infrared application; large mode area fiber fabrication; single-mode fiber; tellurite glass holey fiber; wavelength 1.55 mum; Fiber nonlinear optics; Glass; Holey fibers; Optical attenuators; Optical device fabrication; Optical pumping; Optical refraction; Preforms; Silicon compounds; Supercontinuum generation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-856-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2008.4528522
  • Filename
    4528522