Theoretical investigation on low-loss IR-transmitting hollow-core metallic fiber with double-cladding

Author

Meng Zhang ; Wu Yuan ; Xia Yu ; Ping Shum

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2012

fDate

13-16 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, we report on a novel hollow metallic fiber (HMF) design that offers low transmission loss for mid-infrared (mid-IR) wavelength. The fiber is so designed that it has a dielectric and metamaterial double inner-coating, which can efficiently reflect transverse-magnetic (TM) wave. As compared with a normal HMF structure, the double-cladding reduces the mode guiding loss for TM₀₁ mode and fundamental mode by two orders of magnitude in the mid-IR region.

Keywords

dielectric materials; optical design techniques; optical fibre cladding; optical fibre losses; optical metamaterials; dielectric double inner-coating; low-loss infrared-transmitting hollow-core metallic fiber; metamaterial double inner-coating; optical design; optical fibre double cladding; transverse-magnetic wave reflection; Gold; Integrated optics; Laser beam cutting; Laser modes; Metamaterials; Fiber design and fabrication; Fiber optics; Metamaterials; Optics Devices; Surface plasmons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics Global Conference (PGC), 2012

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2513-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PGC.2012.6457958

Filename

6457958