title: Tellurite photonic crystal fiber.
abstract: We report the fabrication of a Tellurite photonic crystal fiber, and demonstrate its waveguiding properties. The measured minimum loss is 2.3 dB/m at a wavelength of 1055 nm. The fiber supports several modes, but in practice just the fundamental mode can be used. We have observed strong stimulated Raman scattering in a fiber with an effective area Aeff=21.2microm2, using sub-ns, ~ 1 microJ pump pulses at 1064.
authors.forename: V V Ravi Kanth
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: A
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authors.lastname: George
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Knight
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authors.lastname: Russell