Reduction of bend loss in large-mode-area Bragg fibres

R. Jamier; S. Février; G. Humbert; M. Devautour; P. Viale; J.-M. Blondy; S. L. Semjonov; M. E. Likhachev; M. M. Bubnov; E. M. Dianov; V. F. Khopin; M. Y. Salganskii; A. N. Guryanov

doi:10.1117/12.723252

21 May 2007 Reduction of bend loss in large-mode-area Bragg fibres

R. Jamier, S. Février, G. Humbert, M. Devautour, P. Viale, J.-M. Blondy, S. L. Semjonov, M. E. Likhachev, M. M. Bubnov, E. M. Dianov, V. F. Khopin, M. Y. Salganskii, A. N. Guryanov

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Proceedings Volume 6588, Photonic Crystal Fibers; 658805 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.723252
Event: International Congress on Optics and Optoelectronics, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic

Abstract

The delivery or generation of high power in optical fibre requires the increase of the core size to increase the threshold of nonlinear effects and the damage threshold. However the bend loss strongly limits the increase of the effective area (A_eff). All-solid photonic bandgap fibres are attractive for the delivery of power since they can be made singlemode whatever the core diameter is. Moreover the silica core can be doped with rare-earth ions. A Bragg fibre is a bandgap fibre composed of a low index core surrounded by N concentric layers of high and low index. We have fabricated Large Mode Area Bragg fibres by the MCVD process. These Bragg fibres present a ratio A_eff/λ² close to 500. A first Bragg fibre, defined by N = 3 and an index contrast between the cladding layers Δn = 0.01, exhibits a measured critical bend radius R_c close to 16 cm (bend loss equal to 3 dB/m). Increasing the index contrast Δn leads to a tighter field confinement. The field distribution of the guided mode strongly decays in the periodic cladding and is thus less sensitive to bending. We propose here the design of an improved Bragg fibre with a very large index contrast Δn = 0.035 which leads to a dramatic reduction of the bend loss. The critical bend radius was measured to be lower than 3 cm. This fibre is less bend sensitive than an equivalent solid core fibre, either a step-index fibre or a photonic crystal fibre.

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R. Jamier, S. Février, G. Humbert, M. Devautour, P. Viale, J.-M. Blondy, S. L. Semjonov, M. E. Likhachev, M. M. Bubnov, E. M. Dianov, V. F. Khopin, M. Y. Salganskii, and A. N. Guryanov "Reduction of bend loss in large-mode-area Bragg fibres", Proc. SPIE 6588, Photonic Crystal Fibers, 658805 (21 May 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.723252

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