Title :
Guiding optical light in air using an all-dielectric structure
Author :
Fink, Yoel ; Ripin, Daniel J. ; Fan, Shanhui ; Chen, Chiping ; Joannepoulos, J.D. ; Thomas, Edwin L.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mater. Sci. & Eng., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
fDate :
11/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The emergence of a dielectric omnidirectional multilayer structure opens new opportunities for low loss broad-band guiding of light in air. We demonstrate the effectiveness of such an approach by fabricating a broad-band, low-loss hollow waveguide in the 10-μm region and measuring its transmission around a 300 bend. The generality of the solution enables the application of the method to many wavelengths of interest important in telecommunication applications as well as for guiding high-power lasers in medical and other fields of use
Keywords :
light transmission; optical waveguides; photonic band gap; all-dielectric structure; dielectric omnidirectional multilayer structure; guiding optical light; high-power lasers; low-loss hollow waveguide; telecommunication applications; transmission; Absorption; Biomedical optical imaging; Dielectric losses; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Hollow waveguides; Materials science and technology; Optical fibers; Optical films; Optical waveguides; Waveguide lasers;
Journal_Title :
Lightwave Technology, Journal of
