title: All-solid photonic bandgap fiber.
abstract: We describe the design and fabrication of a photonic bandgap fiber formed with two different glasses. As in a hollow-core fiber, light is guided in a low-index core region because of the antiresonances of the high-index strands in the fiber cladding. The structure described represents an ideal bandgap fiber that exhibits no interface modes and guides over the full width of multiple bandgaps.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK. pypfl@bath.ac.uk
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Luan
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: George
authors.forename: T D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Hedley
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Pearce
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Bird
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Knight
authors.forename: P St J
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Russell