Hypocycloid-shaped hollow-core photonic crystal fiber Part II: Cladding effect on confinement and bend loss

Meshaal Alharbi (1) , Tom Bradley (1) , Benoît Debord (2) , Coralie Fourcade Dutin (1, 2) , D. Ghosh (2) , Luca Vincetti (3) , Frédéric Gérôme (2) , Fetah A. Benabid (1, 2)

1 University of Bath [Bath]
2 XLIM-PHOTONIQUE - PHOTONIQUE
3 Department of Information Engineering [Modena]

We report on numerical and experimental studies on the influence of cladding ring-number on the confinement and bend loss in hypocycloid-shaped Kagome hollow core photonic crystal fiber. The results show that beyond the second ring, the ring number has a minor effect on confinement loss whereas the bend loss is strongly reduced with the ring-number increase. Finally, the results show that the increase in the cladding ring-number improves the modal content of the fiber.

Domaines: Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]; Optique / photonique

Meshaal Alharbi, Tom Bradley, Benoît Debord, Coralie Fourcade Dutin, D. Ghosh, et al.. Hypocycloid-shaped hollow-core photonic crystal fiber Part II: Cladding effect on confinement and bend loss. Optics Express, 2013, 21 (23), pp.28609. ⟨hal-00923917⟩