Metallic mode confinement in microstructured fibres.
We report the first long, uniform, optical fibers in which visible light is guided in a single mode by metallic reflection. We describe the fabrication, experiment and characterization of these metallic optical fibers and compare them with theoretical calculations.
Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials, Department of Physics, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK. houjing25@sina.com
Jing
J
Hou
David
D
Bird
Alan
A
George
Stefan
S
Maier
Boris
B
Kuhlmey
J C
JC
Knight
D005336:Fiber Optic Technology; D008670:Metals / Q000737:chemistry*; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D055100:Optical Fibers; D012031:Refractometry
D008670:Metals