TY - JOUR
T1 - Single-Mode index-guiding photonic crystal fibers for the middle infrared
AU - Millo, Arnon
AU - Lobachinsky, Lilya
AU - Katzir, Abraham
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received January 8, 2008; revised February 24, 2008. This work was supported in part by the United States–Israel Binominal Science Foundation (BSF) under Project 2002385. The authors are with the School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel (e-mail: milloarnon@walla.co.il). Color versions of one or more of the figures in this letter are available online at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/LPT.2008.921850
PY - 2008/5/15
Y1 - 2008/5/15
N2 - Single-mode optical fibers for the middle infrared (mid-IR) (λ = 3 -30 μm) are needed for many applications such as IR fiber lasers, spatial filtering, and interferometry. There has only been limited success in the development of such fibers, due to the lack of suitable materials that have high transmission in this spectral range. In this letter, we discuss the development and optical measurements on single-mode index-guiding photonic crystal fibers based on silver-halide crystalline materials which are highly transparent in the mid-IR. These fibers were designed to have a large core area and to maintain a single-mode operation over a wide spectral range.
AB - Single-mode optical fibers for the middle infrared (mid-IR) (λ = 3 -30 μm) are needed for many applications such as IR fiber lasers, spatial filtering, and interferometry. There has only been limited success in the development of such fibers, due to the lack of suitable materials that have high transmission in this spectral range. In this letter, we discuss the development and optical measurements on single-mode index-guiding photonic crystal fibers based on silver-halide crystalline materials which are highly transparent in the mid-IR. These fibers were designed to have a large core area and to maintain a single-mode operation over a wide spectral range.
KW - Microstructured fibers
KW - Optical fibers for the middle infrared (mid-IR)
KW - Silver-halides
KW - Single-mode fibers (SMFs)
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U2 - 10.1109/LPT.2008.921850
DO - 10.1109/LPT.2008.921850
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AN - SCOPUS:55549115504
SN - 1041-1135
VL - 20
SP - 869
EP - 871
JO - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
JF - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
IS - 10
ER -