Very large effective area singlemode photonic bandgap fibre

Sébastien Février, Pierre Viale, Frédéric Gérôme, Philippe Leproux, Philippe Roy, J.-M. Blondy, Bernard Dussardier, Gérard Monnom

Electronics Letters · 2003 · 46 citations · 8 references

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A photonic bandgap fibre consisting of a 34 µm diameter pure silica core surrounded by a periodic cladding has been modelled and characterised. It guides a robust HE11 mode at 1.55 µm with a 517 µm2 effective area and 0.4 dB/m propagation losses.

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