Title :
Air-hole collapse and mode transitions in microstructured fiber photonic wires
Author :
Mägi, E.C. ; Nguyen, H.C. ; Lize, Y.K. ; Eggleton, B.J.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst., Sydney Univ., NSW, Australia
Abstract :
We demonstrate robust low-bend loss microstructured fiber photonic wires, which posses a transition from an embedded regime, insensitive to the surroundings, into an evanescent sensing regime, through controlled air-hole collapse.
Keywords :
optical fibre losses; optical fibre testing; air-hole collapse; embedded regime; evanescent sensing regime; mode transitions; robust low-bend loss microstructured fiber photonic wires; Biomedical optical imaging; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical control; Optical devices; Optical fibers; Optical sensors; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystal fibers; Wires;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-795-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2005.201674
