Author :
Mangan, B.J. ; Couny, F. ; Farr, L. ; Langford, A. ; Roberts, P.J. ; Williams, D.P. ; Banham, M. ; Mason, M.W. ; Murphy, D.F. ; Brown, E.A.M. ; Sabert, H. ; Birks, T.A. ; Knight, J.C. ; Russell, P.St.J.
Abstract :
We report the first experimental realisation of a dispersion-compensating photonic crystal fibre. With a dispersion of -1211 ps/nm/!un, the fibre compensates 75 times its length of conventional telecoms fibre, and is 85% slope-matched.