Dispersion in low-loss liquid-core optical fibres

Ultimate low loss of hollow-core photonic crystal fibres.

Hollow-core photonic crystal fibres have excited interest as potential ultra-low loss telecommunications fibres because light propagates mainly in air instead of solid glass. We propose that the ultimate limit to the attenuation of such fibres is determined by surface roughness due to frozenin capillary waves. This is confirmed by measurements of the surface roughness in a HC-PCF, the angular d...

Design Guidelines for Ultra-broadband Dispersion-flattened Optical Fibres with Segmented-core Index Profile

Single optical fibres exhibiting minimum dispersion over the two optical wavelength windows of 1300 and 1550 nm region are essential for the multi-channel operation of dense wavelength multiplexed systems and networks. Design guidelines of dispersion-flattened optical fibres, over a wide band of optical spectrum, which have a triple-clad or segmented-core distribution of stepindex regions are d...

Tunable and low bending loss of liquid-core fiber

The liquid-core fiber with relatively high refractive index difference between the core and cladding is proven to be bending insensitive. The single mode condition and bending loss of the fiber with a mixture of toluene and chloroform as its core material are studied. The results show that the bending loss of this fiber is not only much smaller than the conventional silica single mode fiber but...

Inverse Design of Dispersion Compensating Optical Fibres Using Topology Optimization

On the Dispersion Relations of Tapered Core Optical Fibers with Liquid Crystal Clad

The paper deals with the case of a three-layer liquid crystal tapered optical fiber (LCTOF) for which the dispersion relations are deduced corresponding to the TE and the TM modes. For the LCTOF under consideration, the outermost clad section is made of liquid crystal material with radial anisotropy whereas the core and the inner clad are homogeneous, non-magnetic and isotropic dielectric regio...