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  1. Fabrication of long holey fibers gets practical

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    Mon, 1 Nov 1999

    have fabricated mechanically robust holey fiber greater than 50 m in length. They have ..... permitted a detailed characterization of a holey fiber near 1.5 µm. The results may represent ..... loss, nonlinearity and dispersion for holey fiber in the 1550-nm telecommunications

  2. HOLEY FIBERS : Novel methods pair holey fibers with conventional fibers

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    Sat, 1 Apr 2006

    With their small mode-field diameters, some holey fibers are difficult to couple to standard single-mode fibers ..... useful for matching dissimilar SMFs, won’t work for holey fibers because of their holey geometry. We therefore use taper

  1. FIBEROPTICS: Fabrication of long holey fibers gets practical

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    Mon, 1 Nov 1999

    For example, holey fibers can produce unique ..... properties of holey fibers until recently ..... mechanically robust holey fiber greater than ..... length of the holey fiber over a range ..... properties of holey fibers prior to fabrication

  2. Air-core holey fiber becomes sensitive gas sensor

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    Thu, 1 Jul 2004

    photonic-crystal (also known as " holey ") fiber with an air cavity at its core ..... One end of the 1-m-long holey fiber is placed in the chamber, near ..... optical spectrum analyzer. The holey fibers tested have core diameters of about

  3. MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS: Secondary cores in holey fibers produce multicolor output

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    Fri, 1 Jun 2007

    A holey - fiber -based white-light source developed ..... 460 and 625 nm. The 1 m length of holey fiber was originally intended for guiding near ..... level chosen to avoid damage to the holey fiber ). Click here to enlarge image To better

  4. MICROSTRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBERS: Sensor uses open slots on holey fibers

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    Tue, 1 Jan 2008

    conventional fibers without loss of access to the microstructure. Fabricating the slot Two methods to laterally access a holey fiber are laser drilling or by bursting through the wall of the fiber with simultaneous application of heat and pressure. Unfortunately

  5. Interest grows in components based on holey fibers

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    Thu, 1 May 2003

    crystal fibers.1 Highly nonlinear holey fibers can be used for other applications by ..... and a CW beam in a highly nonlinear holey fiber has been used for tunable wavelength ..... a 15-m length of highly nonlinear holey fiber has been demonstrated at data rates

  6. Holey -fiber pulse source is tunable

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    Sun, 1 Jul 2001

    based on a ytterbium (Yb)-doped holey - fiber amplifier (see figure). The source ..... here to enlarge image Ytterbium-doped holey fiber pumped with 966-nm light compresses ..... 06-µm seed pulses. When in the holey fiber , the seed pulses quickly form solitons

  7. Holey fiber concept spawns optical-fiber renaissance

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    Sun, 1 Sep 2002

    operate at all (see "The quest for holey fiber began with an intriguing idea," p ..... applications is growing by the month. The " holey fiber " concept has created a renaissance ..... Russell@bath.ac.uk. The quest for holey fiber began with an intriguing idea In 1991

  8. Holes in photonic crystal fibers open new possibilities

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    Tue, 1 May 2001

    Solid-core holey fibers Other photonic ..... be. Thus if a holey fiber has a solid core ..... Solid-core holey fibers transmit light ..... effective area of a holey fiber to as little as ..... devices based on holey fibers could be 10 to