First Ignition of an UV Microwave Microplasma in Ar-filled Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fibers

Benoît Debord (1) , Frédéric Gérôme (1) , Raphaël Jamier (1) , Caroline Boisse-Laporte (2) , Philippe Leprince (2) , Olivier Leroy (2) , Jean-Marc Blondy (1) , Fetah A. Benabid (1)

1 PHOTONIQUE
2 LPGP - Laboratoire de physique des gaz et des plasmas

We report on the first ignition of efficient and stable microwave columns of microplasmas directly inside large Ar-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibers. Optical characterizations of UV guided light are also presented.

Benoît Debord, Frédéric Gérôme, Raphaël Jamier, Caroline Boisse-Laporte, Philippe Leprince, et al.. First Ignition of an UV Microwave Microplasma in Ar-filled Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fibers. Euvopean Conference on Optical Communication, ECOC, Sep 2011, Genève, Switzerland. pp.1-3. ⟨hal-00693473⟩