Title :
Multiple-cladding-resonance all-solid photonic bandgap fibers with large mode area
Author :
Guancheng Gu ; Fanting Kong ; Hawkins, Thomas W. ; Jones, Maxwell ; Liang Dong
Author_Institution :
Holcombe Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Clemson Univ., Anderson, SC, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrated both theoretically and experimentally robust single-mode operation in all-solid photonic bandgap fibers with record effective mode areas of ~2650μm2 by introducing multiple strongly coupled smaller cores in the cladding.
Keywords :
holey fibres; photonic band gap; effective mode areas; large mode area; multiple strongly coupled smaller cores; multiple-cladding-resonance all-solid photonic bandgap fibers; single-mode operation; Couplings; Fabrication; Frequency modulation; Optical fibers; Optimized production technology; Photonic bandgap fibers; Robustness;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
