Design and Properties of Hollow Antiresonant Fibers for the Visible and Near Infrared Spectral Range

Author

Belardi, Walter

Author_Institution

Univ. of Bath, Bath, UK

Volume

33

Issue

21

fYear

2015

Firstpage

4497

Lastpage

4503

Abstract

Hollow core antiresonant fibers offer new possibilities in the near infrared and visible spectral range. I show here that the great flexibility of this technology can allow the design and fabrication of hollow core optical fibers with an extended transmission bandwidth in the near infrared and with very low optical attenuation in the visible wavelength regime. A very low attenuation of 175 dB/km at 480 nm is reported. A modification of the design of the studied fibers is proposed in order to achieve fast-responding gas detection.

Keywords

fibre optic sensors; gas sensors; infrared spectra; optical design techniques; optical fibre fabrication; visible spectra; extended transmission bandwidth; gas detection; hollow core antiresonant optical fiber design; hollow core antiresonant optical fiber fabrication; near infrared spectral range; optical attenuation; visible spectral range; visible wavelength regime; wavelength 480 nm; Attenuation; Bandwidth; Electron tubes; Optical attenuators; Optical device fabrication; Optical fibers; Anti-resonant fibers; Hollow core fibers; anti-resonant fibers; gas sensing; hollow core fibers; optical design; optical fiber fabrication;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2015.2477775

Filename

7247624