Photonic crystal fiber devices

Tim A. Birks; George Kakarantzas; Philip St.J. Russell; Dominic F. Murphy

doi:10.1117/12.471979

15 April 2003 Photonic crystal fiber devices

Tim A. Birks, George Kakarantzas, Philip St.J. Russell, Dominic F. Murphy

Proceedings Volume 4943, Fiber-based Component Fabrication, Testing, and Connectorization; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.471979
Event: Photonics Fabrication Europe, 2002, Bruges, Belgium

Abstract

Photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) have been receiving increasing attention over the past few years. They are single material fibers that use an array of air holes in the cladding to confine light to a core, instead of the more usual refractive index step within the solid material of a conventional fiber. As PCFs become more well-understood mainstream structures, the need arises to develop techniques to process them post-fabrication to form all-fiber devices. We have chosen to study heat-treatment processes analogous to the tapering of conventional fibers, except that in PCFs there is a second degree of freedom to exploit. Not only can the fiber be stretched to locally reduce its cross-sectional area, the air holes can be changed in size by heating alone under the effect of surface tension.

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Tim A. Birks, George Kakarantzas, Philip St.J. Russell, and Dominic F. Murphy "Photonic crystal fiber devices", Proc. SPIE 4943, Fiber-based Component Fabrication, Testing, and Connectorization, (15 April 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.471979

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