Cladding effect on confinement and bend losses in hypocycloid-core Kagome HC-PCF

Meshaal Alharbi (1, 2) , Thomas D. Bradley (1, 2) , Benoît Debord (2) , Coralie Fourcade Dutin (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 results on the influence of cladding ring number in hypocycloid-core Kagome HC-PCF. The number of rings has moderate effect on confinement loss whereas strong reduction in bend loss is demonstrated.

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

Meshaal Alharbi, Thomas D. Bradley, Benoît Debord, Coralie Fourcade Dutin, D. Ghosh, et al.. Cladding effect on confinement and bend losses in hypocycloid-core Kagome HC-PCF. CLEO: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2013 US, OSA, Jun 2013, San Jose, United States. pp.CTu2K.7, ⟨10.1364/CLEO_SI.2013.CTu2K.7⟩. ⟨hal-00924069⟩