Title :
Extending transmission windows of air-core photonic bandgap fibers
Author :
Dong, Liang ; Thomas, Brian K. ; Suzuki, Shigeru ; Fu, Libin
Author_Institution :
ECE/COMSET, Univ. of Clemson, Clemson, SC, USA
Abstract :
Photonic bandgap fibers (PBF) offer many unique properties and are critical to many emerging applications, some requiring very wide bandgaps. We will demonstrate theoretically and experimentally PBFs with square lattice can provide much wider bandgaps.
Keywords :
optical fibre cladding; optical fibre fabrication; photonic band gap; air-core photonic bandgap fibers; square lattice; transmission windows; wider bandgap; Couplings; Fabrication; Lattices; Loss measurement; Photonic band gap; Photonic bandgap fibers; Spectroscopy;
Conference_Titel :
Winter Topicals (WTM), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Keystone, CO
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8428-7
DOI :
10.1109/PHOTWTM.2011.5730114