• DocumentCode
    1793638
  • Title

    Negative curvature fibers with reduced leakage loss

  • Author

    Belardi, Walter ; Knight, Jonathan C.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Bath, Bath, UK
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    9-13 March 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We describe improved designs for “negative curvature” hollow core anti-resonant fibers. Numerical simulations show that introducing additional silica rings into the cladding results in a major reduction in the fiber leakage losses, for realizable fiber structures.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre cladding; optical fibre losses; silicon compounds; SiO2; cladding; fiber leakage losses; fiber structures; hollow core anti-resonant fibers; negative curvature fibers; numerical simulations; reduced leakage loss; silica rings; Glass; Optical fiber losses; Optimized production technology; Silicon compounds; Structural rings;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-5575-2994-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1364/OFC.2014.Th2A.45
  • Filename
    6886726