Analysis of air-guiding photonic bandgap fibers
- 15 January 2000
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 25 (2), 96-98
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.25.000096
Abstract
We present what is to our knowledge the first theoretical analysis of air-guiding photonic bandgap fibers. The fibers are characterized by a large hollow core and a microstructured cladding exhibiting photonic bandgap effects. Using an efficient, full-vectorial numerical method, we explain the operational principle of the fibers and obtain detailed information about the properties of the air-guided modes. This information includes accurate determination of the modes’ spectral extent, cutoff properties, and mode-field distributions.Keywords
This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
- Single-Mode Photonic Band Gap Guidance of Light in AirScience, 1999
- Photonic Crystal Fibers: A New Class of Optical WaveguidesOptical Fiber Technology, 1999
- Holey optical fibers: an efficient modal modelJournal of Lightwave Technology, 1999
- Full-vector analysis of a realistic photonic crystal fiberOptics Letters, 1999
- Waveguidance by the photonic bandgap effect in optical fibresJournal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, 1999
- Two-dimensional Kagomé structure, fundamental hexagonal photonic crystal configurationElectronics Letters, 1999
- Photonic Band Gap Guidance in Optical FibersScience, 1998
- Highly increased photonic band gaps in silica/air structuresOptics Communications, 1998
- High-power hollow fibersPublished by SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng ,1998
- Accurate theoretical analysis of photonic band-gap materialsPhysical Review B, 1993