title: Single-mode tellurite glass holey fiber with extremely large mode area for infrared nonlinear applications.
abstract: We report the fabrication of a large mode area tellurite holey fiber from an extruded preform, with a mode area of 3000microm(2). Robust single-mode guidance at 1.55microm was confirmed by both optical measurement and numerical simulation. The propagation loss was measured as 2.9dB/m at 1.55microm. A broad and flat supercontinuum from 0.9 to 2.5microm with 6mW output was obtained with a 9cm length of this fiber.
authors.affiliation: Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK. xif@orc.soton.ac.uk
authors.forename: Xian
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Wei H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Loh
authors.forename: Joanne C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Flanagan
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Camerlingo
authors.forename: Sonali
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dasgupta
authors.forename: Periklis
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Petropoulos
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Horak
authors.forename: Ken E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Frampton
authors.forename: Nicholas M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: White
authors.forename: Jonathan H V
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Price
authors.forename: Harvey N
authors.initials: HN
authors.lastname: Rutt
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Richardson
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005898:Glass / Q000737:chemistry*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D013691:Tellurium / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: C026660:tellurous acid; D013691:Tellurium