Abstract
We demonstrate experimentally that bending loss in large mode area photonic crystal fibers oscillates with wavelength. To do so we carried out loss measurements for different fiber bend radii and for different angular orientations. These results confirm the oscillatory behavior of bending loss vs. wavelength as predicted recently by numerical analysis [J. Olszewski et al., Opt. Express 13, 6015 (2005)]. We also found good agreement between our measurement results and our simulations relying on a finite element method with perfectly matched layers and an equivalent index model.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 13547-13556 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Optics Express |
Volume | 15 |
Issue number | 21 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 2007 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics