Loss-reduced internally liquid-filled photonic crystal fibers

Jin-Hui Liu; Chin-Ping Yu

doi:10.1117/12.840601

24 February 2010 Loss-reduced internally liquid-filled photonic crystal fibers

Jin-Hui Liu, Chin-Ping Yu

Proceedings Volume 7609, Photonic and Phononic Crystal Materials and Devices X; 76091M (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.840601
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2010, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We demonstrate the fabrication of the internally liquid-filled photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) with the liquids filled in inner air-hole layers of the PCFs. The outer air-hole layers are first blocked by using a selectively blocking technique with a polished fiber tip. The liquid is then infiltrated into the inner open holes through a vacuum injection method to obtain the internally liquid-filled PCFs. The measurement results show that the propagation losses of the internally liquid-filled PCFs can be efficiently reduced with the aid of the outer air-hole layers in the fiber cladding. By varying the operation temperature, we also demonstrate the thermally tunable optical properties of our fabricated internally liquidfilled PCFs.

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Jin-Hui Liu and Chin-Ping Yu "Loss-reduced internally liquid-filled photonic crystal fibers", Proc. SPIE 7609, Photonic and Phononic Crystal Materials and Devices X, 76091M (24 February 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.840601

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