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Towards low loss hollow core optical fibers

Towards low loss hollow core optical fibers
Towards low loss hollow core optical fibers
Silica glass optical fibers have revolutionized data transmission, sensing and laser development over the past 50 years, however, dielectric waveguides with a hollow core offer exciting development possibilities beyond traditional technology. Hollow Core Optical Fibers (HCFs) have been fabricated over the past 20 years with various geometries and refinements reported over this time. Despite numerous design developments and predictions from theoretical studies, one of the key performance indicators of optical fibers - attenuation - has remained significantly higher than can be routinely achieved in standard silica single mode fibers. Here we present recent developments in Nested Anti-resonant Nodeless Fiber (NANF) design over the last few years and show how this rapidly developing technology has been refined to produce state of the art HCFs with attenuation = 0.28 dB/km at 1550 nm.
Hollow Core Anti-Resonant Fiber, NANF, Nested Anti-Resonant Fiber, Telecoms
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Bradley, Thomas D.
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Jasion, Gregory T.
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Taranta, Austin
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Harrington, Kerrianne
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Numkam Fokoua, Eric
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Chen, Yong
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Richardson, David J.
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Poletti, Francesco
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Li, Guifang
Nakajima, Kazuhide
Bradley, Thomas D.
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Taranta, Austin
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Harrington, Kerrianne
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Numkam Fokoua, Eric
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Chen, Yong
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Bradley, Thomas D., Jasion, Gregory T., Sakr, Hesham, Davidson, Ian A., Hayes, John R., Taranta, Austin, Harrington, Kerrianne, Numkam Fokoua, Eric, Chen, Yong, Richardson, David J. and Poletti, Francesco (2021) Towards low loss hollow core optical fibers. Li, Guifang and Nakajima, Kazuhide (eds.) In Next-Generation Optical Communication: Components, Sub-Systems, and Systems X. vol. 11713, SPIE.. (doi:10.1117/12.2579577).

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Abstract

Silica glass optical fibers have revolutionized data transmission, sensing and laser development over the past 50 years, however, dielectric waveguides with a hollow core offer exciting development possibilities beyond traditional technology. Hollow Core Optical Fibers (HCFs) have been fabricated over the past 20 years with various geometries and refinements reported over this time. Despite numerous design developments and predictions from theoretical studies, one of the key performance indicators of optical fibers - attenuation - has remained significantly higher than can be routinely achieved in standard silica single mode fibers. Here we present recent developments in Nested Anti-resonant Nodeless Fiber (NANF) design over the last few years and show how this rapidly developing technology has been refined to produce state of the art HCFs with attenuation = 0.28 dB/km at 1550 nm.

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Published date: 5 March 2021
Additional Information: The authors would like to thank: Lucy Hooper, Marcelo Alonso, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, Arsalan Saljoghei and Mike Fake for their assistance; and we gratefully acknowledge the support of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and ERC (grant agreement no. 682724).
Venue - Dates: Next-Generation Optical Communication: Components, Sub-Systems, and Systems X 2021, , Virtual, Online, United States, 2021-03-06 - 2021-03-11
Keywords: Hollow Core Anti-Resonant Fiber, NANF, Nested Anti-Resonant Fiber, Telecoms
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Local EPrints ID: 471947
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/471947
DOI: doi:10.1117/12.2579577
ISSN: 0277-786X
PURE UUID: c4b1288b-c388-449d-bb34-a36779ec7b5f
ORCID for Thomas D. Bradley: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6568-5811
ORCID for Gregory T. Jasion: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5030-6479
ORCID for Hesham Sakr: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4154-8414
ORCID for Austin Taranta: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5666-6800
ORCID for Eric Numkam Fokoua: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0873-911X
ORCID for Yong Chen: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0383-6113
ORCID for David J. Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058
ORCID for Francesco Poletti: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1000-3083

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Date deposited: 22 Nov 2022 18:02
Last modified: 18 Mar 2024 03:44

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Author: Thomas D. Bradley ORCID iD
Author: Gregory T. Jasion ORCID iD
Author: Hesham Sakr ORCID iD
Author: Ian A. Davidson
Author: John R. Hayes
Author: Austin Taranta ORCID iD
Author: Kerrianne Harrington
Author: Eric Numkam Fokoua ORCID iD
Author: Yong Chen ORCID iD
Author: David J. Richardson ORCID iD
Author: Francesco Poletti ORCID iD
Editor: Guifang Li
Editor: Kazuhide Nakajima

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