Experimental investigations of bending loss oscillations in large mode area photonic crystal fibers

T. Martynkien, Jacek Olszewski, Marcin Szpulak, G. Golojuch, Waclaw Urbanczyk, Tomasz Nasilowski, F. Berghmans, H. Thienpont

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    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 languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)13547-13556
    Number of pages10
    JournalOptics Express
    Volume15
    Issue number21
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Oct 2007

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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