Heterostructured photonic crystal fiber

Author

Yan, M. ; Shum, P. ; Yu, X.

Author_Institution

Network Technol. Res. Centre, Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

Volume

17

Issue

7

fYear

2005

fDate

7/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1438

Lastpage

1440

Abstract

We introduce heterostructured photonic crystal fibers whose cladding and core are two lattice-matched photonic crystals (PCs). Confined modes, particularly those due to photonic bandgaps (PBGs) possessed by cladding PC, can be quickly predicted by studying cladding PBG regions and space-filling modes of the core PC. We theoretically demonstrate that PBG-guided modes can be either index-guided or antiguided locally in the core area. Such fibers are expected to have applications in nonlinear optics and sensors.

Keywords

optical fibre cladding; photonic band gap; photonic crystals; confined modes; fiber cladding; fiber core; heterostructured fiber; index-guided mode; lattice-matched photonic crystals; locally antiguided mode; nonlinear optics; optical sensors; photonic bandgaps; photonic crystal fiber; space-filling modes; Crystalline materials; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Optical materials; Personal communication networks; Photonic band gap; Photonic crystal fibers; Photonic crystals; Silicon compounds; Holey fiber; microstructured optical fiber (MOF); photonic bandgap (PBG) fiber; photonic crystal fiber (PCF);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.849966

Filename

1453636