Photonic crystal fiber devices fabricated by air hole control using CO2 laser irradiation technique

Author

Yokota, Hirohisa ; Imai, Yoh ; Sasaki, Yutaka

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Ibaraki Univ., Hitachi, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

June 28 2009-July 2 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Recent progress in research on photonic crystal fiber devices fabricated by air hole control using CO₂ laser irradiation technique is reviewed. A method to adjust coupling characteristics of air hole collapsed photonic crystal fiber (PCF) coupler, a wide wavelength band PCF attenuator fabrication, and a method to reduce splice loss between a conventional single-mode fiber and a high nonlinear PCF are described.

Keywords

gas lasers; holey fibres; laser beam effects; optical fibre couplers; photonic crystals; PCF attenuator; air hole control; carbon dioxide laser irradiation; gas laser irradiation; photonic crystal fiber coupler; Fiber lasers; Optical control; Optical coupling; Optical device fabrication; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber losses; Optical fiber polarization; Photonic crystal fibers; Power lasers; CO2 laser; fiber coupler; optical attenuator; photonic crystal fiber; splice loss reduction of fiber;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2009. ICTON '09. 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Azores

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4825-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4827-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2009.5185078

Filename

5185078