Measurement of the wavelength dependence of beam divergence for photonic crystal fiber

M.J. Gander, R. McBride, Jim Jones, T. A. Birks, J. C. Knight, P. St. J. Russell, P. Blanchard, James G. Burnett, A. H. Greenaway

Optics Letters · 1999 · 37 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

We report measurements of the wavelength dependence of beam divergence for single-mode photonic crystal fiber. These measurements confirm predictions of strongly wavelength-dependent beam divergence, consistent with the effective-index model for the photonic crystal cladding material.

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