Splice-free interfacing of photonic crystal fibers

Leon-Saval, Sergio G.; Birks, T. A.; Joly, Nicolas Y.; George, A.K.; Wadsworth, William J.; Kakarantzas, G.; Russell, P. St. J.

doi:10.1364/ol.30.001629

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“…We believe that the stack-and-draw [15] or the die-cast method that is able to realize elliptical-hole and asymmetric PCF structures [16], can be used to fabricate such a structure. While the highly asymmetric mode shape of our proposed PCF design surely makes it more challenging to couple it with conventional optical fibers, such kind of highly birefringent PCFs have been widely proposed and implemented in the real applications and various schemes have been proposed to alleviate the problem [17]. …”

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Ultra-wideband single-polarization single-mode, high nonlinearity photonic crystal fiber

Zhang

et al. 2009

Optics Communications

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Ultra-wideband single-polarization single-mode, high nonlinearity photonic crystal fiber

Zhang

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Optics Communications

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“…The use of the same technique, but repeating arc discharges in SMF, was also studied by Xiao et al [93]. Leon-Saval et al [94] demonstrated a spliceless ferrule interface between an SMF and a PCF adapted from the fabrication of PCF preforms from stacked tubes and rods. Splices between hollow-core fibers and SMF were also studied through the use of electric arc discharges in the region of the SMF (Thapa et al [95], Xiao et al [96]).…”

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Optical sensing with photonic crystal fibers

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Santos

Araújo

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Laser & Photonics Reviews

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A review of optical fiber sensing demonstrations based on photonic crystal fibers is presented. The text is organized in five main sections: the first three deal with sensing approaches relying on fiber Bragg gratings, long-period gratings and interferometric structures; the fourth one reports applications of these fibers for gas and liquid sensing; finally, the last section focuses on the exploitation of nonlinear effects in photonic crystal fibers for sensing. A brief review about splicing with photonic crystal fibers is also included.Two main classes of photonic crystal fibres (PCF): index-guiding PCF (a) and photonic bandgap PCF (b).

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“…This method, called the "ferrule technique" [24], was the precursor of the photonic lanterns and was used to interface different photonic crystal fibers to single-mode standard stepindex fibers. Nowadays, an all solid optical fiber splitter/ combiner fabrication technique [12] is most commonly used.…”

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Photonic lanterns

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Multimode optical fibers have been primarily (and almost solely) used as "light pipes" in short distance telecommunications and in remote and astronomical spectroscopy. The modal properties of the multimode waveguides are rarely exploited and mostly discussed in the context of guiding light. Until recently, most photonic applications in the applied sciences have arisen from developments in telecommunications. However, the photonic lantern is one of several devices that arose to solve problems in astrophotonics and space photonics. Interestingly, these devices are now being explored for use in telecommunications and are likely to find commercial use in the next few years, particularly in the development of compact spectrographs. Photonic lanterns allow for a low-loss transformation of a multimode waveguide into a discrete number of single-mode waveguides and vice versa, thus enabling the use of single-mode photonic technologies in multimode systems. In this review, we will discuss the theory and function of the photonic lantern, along with several different variants of the technology. We will also discuss some of its applications in more detail. Furthermore, we foreshadow future applications of this technology to the field of nanophotonics.

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Splice-free interfacing of photonic crystal fibers

Cited by 121 publications

References 10 publications

Ultra-wideband single-polarization single-mode, high nonlinearity photonic crystal fiber

Ultra-wideband single-polarization single-mode, high nonlinearity photonic crystal fiber

Optical sensing with photonic crystal fibers

Photonic lanterns

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