Title :
Microbending in photonic crystal fibres - an ultimate loss limit?
Author :
Bjarklev, Anders ; Hansen, Theis P. ; Hougaard, Kristian ; Libori, Stig Barkou ; Knudsen, Erik ; Broeng, Jes
Author_Institution :
COM, Tech. Univ. Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Abstract :
Microbending losses are for the first time estimated in index-guiding photonic crystal fibres, and comparisons with standard step-index fibres are made. The results indicate that typical photonic crystal fibres are significantly less sensitive (one order of magnitude smaller loss) towards microbending than standard optical fibres.
Keywords :
bending; optical fibre losses; index-guiding fibres; loss limit; microbending; photonic crystal fibres; Bars; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Optical fiber losses; Optical fiber theory; Optical fibers; Optimized production technology; Performance evaluation; Photonic crystal fibers; Refractive index; Silicon compounds;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6705-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2001.989648
