Photonic crystal fibers, waveguides, and resonators

Philip St.J. Russell; J. C. Knight; Timothy A. Birks

doi:10.1117/12.354899

19 July 1999 Photonic crystal fibers, waveguides, and resonators

Philip St.J. Russell, J. C. Knight, Timothy A. Birks

Proceedings Volume 3749, 18th Congress of the International Commission for Optics; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.354899
Event: ICO XVIII 18th Congress of the International Commission for Optics, 1999, San Francisco, CA, United States

Abstract

Fibers and planar waveguides made from dielectric materials which are periodically patterned on the scale of the optical wavelength--photonic crystals--have quite remarkable properties, requiring a complete realignment of the goal- posts in conventional guided-wave photonics. For example, photonic crystal fibers can be designed to be single-mode at every frequency, and full 2D photonic bandgaps can permit light to be guided--single mode--in a core region where the refractive index is lower than the cladding. A whole menagerie of new possibilities are presently emerging, including hollow-core single-mode optical fibers and ultra- compact micro-components formed in planar photonic crystal films.

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Philip St.J. Russell, J. C. Knight, and Timothy A. Birks "Photonic crystal fibers, waveguides, and resonators", Proc. SPIE 3749, 18th Congress of the International Commission for Optics, (19 July 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.354899

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