Title :
Hollow-core photonic crystal fibers: Advances and prospects
Author :
Gérôme, Frédéric ; Humbert, Georges ; Auguste, Jean-Louis ; Jamier, Raphaël ; Blondy, Jean-Marc ; Wadsworth, William ; Knight, Jonathan
Author_Institution :
CNRS, Univ. de Limoges, Limoges, France
Abstract :
We report on recent progress in the conception and fabrication of hollow-core photonic crystal fibers. To illustrate their strong potential, experiments dedicated to the delivery and the manipulation of high-power ultrashort pulses are developed. Then, the limitations principally dictated by the nature of guidance of these fibers are highlighted and solutions proposed. Finally, recent works based on particular HC-PCF guiding broad optical transmission bands with relative low-loss are presented and their opportunities discussed.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; optical design techniques; optical fabrication; photonic crystals; high-power ultrashort pulses; hollow-core photonic crystal fibers; Chirp; Fiber lasers; Optical attenuators; Optical propagation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Photonic crystal fibers; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Solitons; Fiber design and fabrication; Photonic bandgap; Soliton propagation; Ultrashort pulse delivery;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2010 12th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7799-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7797-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2010.5548962
