Title :
Highly nonlinear soft-glass microstructured fibers and their application to signal processing
Author :
Monro, T.M. ; Afshar, S.V. ; Zhang, W.Q. ; Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Chem. & Phys., Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Abstract :
We review the properties of optical fibers with extreme nonlinearity. We describe advances in soft glass microstructured fibers, including fabrication and characterisation, generalization of the underpinning nonlinear theory and some novel applications of these fibers.
Keywords :
glass fibres; holey fibres; nonlinear optics; optical fibre fabrication; optical glass; optical signal detection; optical fabrication; signal processing; soft glass microstructured fibers; underpinning nonlinear theory; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber theory;
Conference_Titel :
OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2010 15th
Conference_Location :
Sapporo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6785-3
