Fabrication and Applications of Low Loss Nonlinear Holey Fibers

Nicholas Traynor (1) , Achille Monteville (1) , Laurent Provino (1) , David Landais (1) , Olivier Le Goffic (1) , Thanh Nam Nguyen (2) , Thierry Chartier (2) , Denis Tregoat (1, 3) , John C. Travers (4)

1 PERFOS - Plate-Forme d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Fibres Optiques Spéciales
2 FOTON - Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON
3 RESO - laboratoire de Recherche en Electronique Signal, Optronique, télécommunications
4 FOG - Femtosecond Optics Group

We present the important fabrication issues involved with the realization of low loss, low water peak, nonlinear holey fibers based on the Stack and Draw technique. We have realized fibers with loss performances in the 1.38 μm spectral region that are limited by the intrinsic losses of the raw materials, opening up the possibility of using long lengths of such fibers to demonstrate phenomenon such as Raman amplification and supercontinuum generation using continuous wave pump sources.

Mots clés: fiber design and fabrication; fiber optics; microstructured fibers; nonlinear optics

Domaines: Matériaux; Optique / photonique

Nicholas Traynor, Achille Monteville, Laurent Provino, David Landais, Olivier Le Goffic, et al.. Fabrication and Applications of Low Loss Nonlinear Holey Fibers. Fiber and Integrated Optics, 2009, Fiber Optic Research in France (Part III of III), 28 (1), pp.51-59. ⟨10.1080/01468030802272526⟩. ⟨hal-00430322⟩