Design and fabrication of hollow-core photonic crystal fibers for high-power ultrashort pulse transportation and pulse compression

Wang, Xiaocong; Peng, Xiang; Alharbi, Meshaal; Dutin, Coralie Fourcade; Bradley, Thomas D.; Gérôme, F.; Mielke, Michael; Booth, Timothy; Benabid, Fetah

doi:10.1364/ol.37.003111

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“…Furthermore, the spatial overlap of the core mode with the glass material is universally one order of magnitude smaller in HC-ARF than in HC-PBGF [21]. Having fulfilled the first three requirements proposed above [22], HC-ARF looks very promising for the lab-on-a-fiber applications. Meanwhile, unlike HC-PBGF, which has a typical honeycomb cladding structure [23], the HC-ARF catalog contains a great number of structure selections including Kagome lattice [17], square lattice [24], multifold circular arrangement of capillary tubes [18], nested capillary tubes [25,26], etc.…”

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Semi-analytical model for hollow-core anti-resonant fibers

Ding

Wang

2015

Front. Phys.

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We detailedly describe a recently-developed semi-analytical method to quantitatively calculate light transmission properties of hollow-core anti-resonant fibers (HC-ARFs). Formation of equiphase interface at fiber's outermost boundary and outward light emission ruled by Helmholtz equation in fiber's transverse plane constitute the basis of this method. Our semi-analytical calculation results agree well with those of precise simulations and clarify the light leakage dependences on azimuthal angle, geometrical shape and polarization. Using this method, we show investigations on HC-ARFs having various core shapes (e.g., polygon, hypocycloid) with single-and multi-layered core-surrounds. The polarization properties of ARFs are also studied. Our semi-analytical method provides clear physical insights into the light guidance in ARF and can play as a fast and useful design aid for better ARFs.

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Semi-analytical model for hollow-core anti-resonant fibers

Ding

Wang

2015

Front. Phys.

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“…IC-based HC-PCFs are of advantage over both hollow capillaries and PBG-based fibers, guiding light over a large bandwidth and overcoming the damage threshold of solid-core fibers. These fibers have allowed for a dramatic reduction in transmission loss and have broken records in pulse-energy handling and compression [29,30], leading to the demonstration of 1 mJ 600 fs Yb laser beam handling [30]. Furthermore, these fibers, filled with gases apart from SPM, can also support a variety of nonlinear optical interactions including third-harmonic generation [31] and extreme nonlinear phenomena like high-harmonic generation [32,33].…”

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Kagome-fiber-based pulse compression of mid-infrared picosecond pulses from a Ho:YLF amplifier

Murari¹,

Stein²,

Çankaya³

et al. 2016

Optica

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Over the last decade, the development of ultrafast laser pulses in the mid-infrared (MIR) region has led to important breakthroughs in attosecond science and strong-field physics. However, as most such broadband MIR laser sources are near-IR pumped, the generation of high-intensity, long-wavelength MIR pulses is still a challenge, especially starting from picosecond pulses. Here we report, both experimentally and numerically, nonlinear pulse compression of sub-millijoule picosecond pulses down to sub-300 fs at 2050 nm wavelength in gas-filled Kagome-type hollow-core photonic crystal fibers for driving MIR optical parametric amplifiers. The pump laser is comprised of a compact fiber laser-seeded 2 μm chirped pulse amplification system based on a Ho:YLF crystal at 1 kHz repetition rate. Spectral broadening is studied for different experimental conditions with variations of gas pressure and incident pulse energies. The spectrally broadened 1.8 ps pulses with a Fourier-limited duration of 250 fs are compressed using an external prism-based compressor down to 285 fs and output energy of 125 μJ.

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“…Pulses with 105 µJ energy and 844 fs duration were transmitted at a wavelength of 1550 nm through a Kagome-type HCF with 70 µm core diameter [76]. At the end of a 2.3-m-long fiber, the 300 fs pulses of 78-µJ energy (240 MW peak power) were obtained due to soliton compression.…”

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Revolver Hollow Core Optical Fibers

Bufetov

Косолапов

Pryamikov

et al. 2018

Fibers

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Revolver optical fibers (RF) are special type of hollow-core optical fibers with negative curvature of the core-cladding boundary and with cladding that is formed by a one ring layer of capillaries. The physical mechanisms contributing to the waveguiding parameters of RFs are discussed. The optical properties and possible applications of RFs are reviewed. Special attention is paid to the mid-IR hydrogen Raman lasers that are based on RFs and generating in the wavelength region from 2.9 to 4.4 μm.

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Design and fabrication of hollow-core photonic crystal fibers for high-power ultrashort pulse transportation and pulse compression

Cited by 97 publications

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Semi-analytical model for hollow-core anti-resonant fibers

Semi-analytical model for hollow-core anti-resonant fibers

Kagome-fiber-based pulse compression of mid-infrared picosecond pulses from a Ho:YLF amplifier

Revolver Hollow Core Optical Fibers

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