Confinement losses in microstructured optical fibers

T. P. White; R. C. McPhedran; C. M. De Sterke; L. C. Botten; M. J. Steel

Confinement losses in microstructured optical fibers

T. P. White^*, R. C. McPhedran, C. M. De Sterke, L. C. Botten, M. J. Steel

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Abstract

We describe a multipole formulation that can be used for high-accuracy calculations of the full complex propagation constant of a microstructured optical fiber with a finite number of holes. We show how the imaginary part of the microstructure, which describes confinement losses not associated with absorption, varies with hole size, the number of rings of holes, and wavelength, and give the minimum number of rings of holes required for a specific loss for given parameters.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1660-1662
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	26
Issue number	21
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2001
Externally published	Yes

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