GB2562971B - Hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers - Google Patents

Hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers

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GB2562971B
GB2562971B GB1813897.4A GB201813897A GB2562971B GB 2562971 B GB2562971 B GB 2562971B GB 201813897 A GB201813897 A GB 201813897A GB 2562971 B GB2562971 B GB 2562971B
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bandgap fibers
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Rodrigue Numkam Fokoua Eric
Poletti Francesco
John Richardson David
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University of Southampton
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    • C03B37/0122—Manufacture of preforms for drawing fibres or filaments starting from tubes, rods, fibres or filaments by inserting one or more rods or tubes into a tube for making preforms of photonic crystal, microstructured or holey optical fibres
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    • C03B37/027—Fibres composed of different sorts of glass, e.g. glass optical fibres
    • C03B37/02781—Hollow fibres, e.g. holey fibres
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    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
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    • G02B6/02295—Microstructured optical fibre
    • G02B6/02314—Plurality of longitudinal structures extending along optical fibre axis, e.g. holes
    • G02B6/02319—Plurality of longitudinal structures extending along optical fibre axis, e.g. holes characterised by core or core-cladding interface features
    • G02B6/02323—Core having lower refractive index than cladding, e.g. photonic band gap guiding
    • G02B6/02328—Hollow or gas filled core
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    • G02B6/02314—Plurality of longitudinal structures extending along optical fibre axis, e.g. holes
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    • G02B6/02314—Plurality of longitudinal structures extending along optical fibre axis, e.g. holes
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    • G02B6/02357—Property of longitudinal structures or background material varies radially and/or azimuthally in the cladding, e.g. size, spacing, periodicity, shape, refractive index, graded index, quasiperiodic, quasicrystals
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    • G02B6/02314—Plurality of longitudinal structures extending along optical fibre axis, e.g. holes
    • G02B6/02342—Plurality of longitudinal structures extending along optical fibre axis, e.g. holes characterised by cladding features, i.e. light confining region
    • G02B6/02371—Cross section of longitudinal structures is non-circular
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Citations (6)

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WO2001088578A2 (en) * 2000-05-15 2001-11-22 Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. Optical fiber
US20030230118A1 (en) * 2002-06-12 2003-12-18 Dawes Steven B. Methods and preforms for drawing microstructured optical fibers
US20050185908A1 (en) * 2004-02-20 2005-08-25 Crystal Fibre A/S Hollow-core optical fiber and method of making same
EP1845397A1 (en) * 2006-04-13 2007-10-17 Furukawa Electric North America Inc. (a Delaware Corporation) Suppression of transverse modes in bandgap microstructure optical fibers
US20090245718A1 (en) * 2008-03-25 2009-10-01 Zhiyong Li Optical Sensor And Method Employing Half-Core Hollow Optical Waveguide
US20110085769A1 (en) * 2009-03-31 2011-04-14 Imra America, Inc. Wide bandwidth, low loss photonic bandgap fibers

Patent Citations (6)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2001088578A2 (en) * 2000-05-15 2001-11-22 Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. Optical fiber
US20030230118A1 (en) * 2002-06-12 2003-12-18 Dawes Steven B. Methods and preforms for drawing microstructured optical fibers
US20050185908A1 (en) * 2004-02-20 2005-08-25 Crystal Fibre A/S Hollow-core optical fiber and method of making same
EP1845397A1 (en) * 2006-04-13 2007-10-17 Furukawa Electric North America Inc. (a Delaware Corporation) Suppression of transverse modes in bandgap microstructure optical fibers
US20090245718A1 (en) * 2008-03-25 2009-10-01 Zhiyong Li Optical Sensor And Method Employing Half-Core Hollow Optical Waveguide
US20110085769A1 (en) * 2009-03-31 2011-04-14 Imra America, Inc. Wide bandwidth, low loss photonic bandgap fibers

Non-Patent Citations (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Title
Applied Optics, Volume 44, 2005, J.D. Shephard et al; "Improved hollow-core photonic crystal fiber design for delivery of nanosecond pulses in laser micromachining applications" pp 4582-4588. *
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, Vol. 14, 28,12,2011, Robert J. Noble et al, "Hollow-core photonic band gap fibers for particle acceleration", 121303-1 to 121303-17 *

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