Macro Bending Losses in Kagome-Lattice Fibers

Asha Bhardwaj (1) , Benoît Beaudou (1) , Frédéric Gérôme (1) , Georges Humbert (1) , Jean-Louis Auguste (1) , Jean-Marc Blondy (1) , Fetah A. Benabid (1)

1 PHOTONIQUE

Kagome-lattice fibers with different number of cladding layers have been investigated. Adding at least two layers decreases the bending sensitivity by more than one order of magnitude, resulting on tiny effects in the fundamental band.

Asha Bhardwaj, Benoît Beaudou, Frédéric Gérôme, Georges Humbert, Jean-Louis Auguste, et al.. Macro Bending Losses in Kagome-Lattice Fibers. Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibitio, Sep 2011, Genève, Switzerland. pp.1-3. ⟨hal-00697109⟩