Reduction of Splice Loss between Single-Mode Optical Fiber and High Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Fiber by Air Hole Diameter Control with CO2 Laser Irradiation

Hirohisa YOKOTA  Hirotomo YASHIMA  Yoh IMAI  Yutaka SASAKI 

Publication
C - Abstracts of IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics (Japanese Edition)  Vol.J94-C  No.2  pp.53-56
Publication Date: 2011/02/01
Online ISSN: 1881-0217
Print ISSN: 1345-2827
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
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Keyword: 
high nonlinear photonic crystal fiber,  CO2 laser irradiation,  air hole diameter control,  mode field diameter matching, 

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Summary: 
We proposed a method to reduce mode field diameter (MFD) mismatch loss between a single-mode fiber and a high nonlinear photonic crystal fiber with small MFD by air hole diameter control using CO2 laser irradiation. Effectiveness of the method was theoretically and experimentally clarified.