Abstract
We report the fabrication of a highly nonlinear holey fiber made from pure silica with an effective area of just ∼2.8 μm2 at 1550 nm. We believe this to be the smallest effective area yet measured for a holey fiber at 1550 nm. We also report the operation of a 2R regenerative optical switch based on just 3.3 m of the fiber that is shown to have 30 times the nonlinear figure of merit of previous devices based on dispersion-shifted fiber.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1233-1235 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Optics Letters |
Volume | 26 |
Issue number | 16 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 15 Aug 2001 |