Holey fibers for low bend loss

Nanophotonics

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Kazuhide Nakajima¹  Kotaro Saito¹  Yusuke Yamada¹  Kenji Kurokawa²  Tomoya Shimizu¹  Chisato Fukai¹  Takashi Matsui¹ 

[1] Access Network Service Systems Laboratories;Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Kitami Institute of Technology

关键词: hole assisted fiber;    bending loss;    fiber to the home;    splicing technique;    mechanical reliability;    fiber fuse;   

DOI  :  10.1515/nanoph-2013-0030

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: De Gruyter

【 摘 要 】

Bending-loss insensitive fiber (BIF) has proved an essential medium for constructing the current fiber to the home (FTTH) network. By contrast, the progress that has been made on holey fiber (HF) technologies provides us with novel possibilities including non-telecom applications. In this paper, we review recent progress on hole-assisted type BIF. A simple design consideration is overviewed. We then describe some of the properties of HAF including its mechanical reliability. Finally, we introduce some applications of HAF including to high power transmission. We show that HAF with a low bending loss has the potential for use in various future optical technologies as well as in the optical communication network.

【 授权许可】

CC BY