Microstructured air-silica fibres: Recent developments in modelling, manufacturing and experiment

Dominique Pagnoux (1) , Ambre Peyrilloux , Philippe Roy (1) , Sébastien Février (1) , Laurent Labonté , Stéphane Hilaire

1 IRCOM - Institut de Recherche en Communications Optiques et Microondes

The main modelling methods devoted to microstrutured air-silica optical fibres (MOFs) are presented and discussed. Then, the specific propagation properties of MOFs are studied in detail. Characteristics measured on fibres manufactured in our laboratory or reported in the literature are analysed. A large number of potential and demonstrated applications are presented and the obtained performances are discussed. A particular attention is given to hollow- core photonic bandgap fibres and their applications.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]; Matériaux; Chimie analytique

Dominique Pagnoux, Ambre Peyrilloux, Philippe Roy, Sébastien Février, Laurent Labonté, et al.. Microstructured air-silica fibres: Recent developments in modelling, manufacturing and experiment. Annals of Telecommunications - annales des télécommunications, 2003, 58 (9-10), Vol. 58 n°9-10, September-October 2003. ⟨hal-00465195⟩