TY - GEN
T1 - On-fiber 3D printing of Photonic crystal fiber tapers for mode field diameter conversion
AU - Bertoncini, Andrea
AU - Rajamanickam, Vijayakumar P.
AU - Liberale, Carlo
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The large mismatch between the Mode Field Diameter (MFD) of conventional single-mode fibers (SMFs) and the MFD of highly nonlinear Photonic Crystal Fibers (PCFs), that can be down to 1.5 μm, or Large Mode Area PCF, that can be up to 25 μm, would require a substantial fiber mode size rescaling in order to allow an efficient direct coupling between PCFs and SMFs. Over the years different solutions have been proposed, as fiber splicing of SMF to PCF. However these procedures are not straightforward, as they involve developing special splicing recipes, and can affect PCF optical properties at the splice interface [1].
AB - The large mismatch between the Mode Field Diameter (MFD) of conventional single-mode fibers (SMFs) and the MFD of highly nonlinear Photonic Crystal Fibers (PCFs), that can be down to 1.5 μm, or Large Mode Area PCF, that can be up to 25 μm, would require a substantial fiber mode size rescaling in order to allow an efficient direct coupling between PCFs and SMFs. Over the years different solutions have been proposed, as fiber splicing of SMF to PCF. However these procedures are not straightforward, as they involve developing special splicing recipes, and can affect PCF optical properties at the splice interface [1].
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85039907717
SN - 9781509067367
T3 - Optics InfoBase Conference Papers
BT - The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO_Europe 2017
PB - Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA)
T2 - The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO_Europe 2017
Y2 - 25 June 2017 through 29 June 2017
ER -