Optical properties of solid-core photonic crystal fibers filled with nonlinear absorbers

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2013-09-09

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Butler, James J., Alec S. Bowcock, Stacey R. Sueoka, Steven R. Montgomery, Steven R. Flom, E. Joseph Friebele, Barbara M. Wright, et al. “Optical Properties of Solid-Core Photonic Crystal Fibers Filled with Nonlinear Absorbers.” Optics Express 21, no. 18 (September 9, 2013): 20707–12. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.21.020707.

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Refractive index
Nonlinear optical fibers
Optical properties
Optical limiting
Effective refractive index
UMBC Optical Fiber Communications Laboratory
UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF)
Nonlinear absorption

Abstract

A theoretical and experimental investigation of the transmission of solid-core photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) filled with nonlinear absorbers shows a sharp change in the threshold for optical limiting and in leakage loss as the refractive index of the material in the holes approaches that of the glass matrix. Theoretical calculations of the mode profiles and leakage loss of the PCF are in agreement with experimental results and indicate that the change in limiting response is due to the interaction of the evanescent field of the guided mode with the nonlinear absorbers in the holes.