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Reduced micro-deformation attenuation in large-mode area photonic crystal fibers for visible applications

M. D. Nielsen, N. A. Mortensen, J. R. Folkenberg

physics.opticsarXiv:physics/0306077

Abstract

We consider large-mode area photonic crystal fibers for visible applications where micro-deformation induced attenuation becomes a potential problem when the effective area Aeff is sufficiently large compared to lambda2. We argue how a slight increase in fiber diameter D can be used in screening the high-frequency components of the micro-deformation spectrum mechanically and we confirm this experimentally for both 15 and 20 micron core fibers. For typical bending-radii (R~16 cm) the operating band-width increases by ~3-400 nm to the low-wavelength side.

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