title: Influence of a holey cladding structure on spectral characteristics of side-polished endlessly single-mode photonic crystal fibers.
abstract: We experimentally investigate the spectral characteristics of side-polished endlessly single-mode photonic crystal fibers of different polishing depths and radii of curvature that are important to mode field diameter, evanescent coupling, waveguide losses, higher-order mode excitation, and dispersion slopes of photonic crystal fiber components. A polished photonic crystal fiber with a greater polishing depth or a larger radius of curvature shows a more dispersive characteristic. In contrast to conventional single-mode fibers, in photonic crystal fibers the evanescent field is more strongly localized, and the propagating light can be more efficiently guided within the deformed core.
authors.affiliation: Department of Photonics and Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 300. nkchen.eo90g@nctu.edu.tw
authors.forename: Nan-Kuang
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Sien
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chi