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Hole-assisted lightguide fiber for large anomalous dispersion and low optical loss

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Abstract

Hole-assisted lightguide fiber (HALF) is a microstructured fiber comprising a material index profile for waveguiding and air holes for modifying optical properties. Anomalous dispersion larger than those of the conventional fibers can be realized without severe degradation in optical loss, because of low power fraction in the holes and structural simplicity. We investigate into the causes of the loss of the fabricated HALFs, and show that a GeO2-doped core, in addition to the low power fraction, is desirable for low loss. The fabricated HALF exhibits a loss as low as 0.41 dB/km and a large anomalous dispersion of +35 ps/nm/km at 1550 nm wavelength.

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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1. Schematic structure of hole-assisted lightguide fiber (HALF).
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2. Dependence of properties of HALF on its structure. (a-c) : Structures for calculation. The relationships of (d) dispersion and (e) relative dispersion slope (RDS) to effective area. The calculation is performed with varying the dimensions within the range of single-mode operation. The left and right ends of the plots are the limits posed by the macrobend loss and the higher-order mode cut-off, respectively.
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Fig. 3. Structures of the fabricated HALFs.
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Fig. 4. Dependence of loss on core-cladding materials. Fiber (1): pure silica core, (2): GeO2-doped core.
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Fig. 5. Dependence of loss on the hole shape. Fiber (2): small holes, Fiber (3): large holes.

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Table 1: Summary of the fabricated fibers.

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Table 2: Parameters for loss modeling [8].

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α ( λ ) = A λ 4 + B + α OH ( λ ) ,
α OH ( λ ) = Δ α OH · n = 1 6 a n exp [ 1 2 ( λ λ n σ n ) 2 ] ,
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