• DocumentCode
    2844321
  • Title

    Strictly-bound modes of an idealised hollow-core fibre without a photonic bandgap

  • Author

    Birks, TA ; Bird, DM ; Benabid, F. ; Roberts, PJ

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Bath, Bath, UK
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-23 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We describe an idealised "kagome-like" hollow-core fibre that supports a mode that is strictly localised (that is, exponentially confined, without leakage loss) despite the co-existence of cladding modes with the same effective index and symmetry.
  • Keywords
    glass fibres; holey fibres; optical fibre cladding; optical fibre testing; optical glass; photonic band gap; photonic crystals; refractive index; cladding modes; fibre index distribution; glass webs; hollow-core fibre; localised mode; periodic array; photonic bandgap; photonic crystal fibres; Arrays; Equations; Glass; Indexes; Optimized production technology; Photonic band gap; Photonics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Torino
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8536-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8534-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621219
  • Filename
    5621219