Microstructured optical fibers: where's the edge?
We establish that Microstructured Optical Fibers (MOFs) have a fundamental mode cutoff, marking the transition between modal confinement and non-confinement, and give insight into the nature of this transition through two asymptotic models that provide a mapping to conventional fibers. A small parameter space region where neither of these asymptotic models holds exists for the fundamental mode but not for the second mode; we show that designs exploiting unique MOF characteristics tend to concentrate in this preferred region.
Kuhlmey
Boris
B
McPhedran
Ross
R
de Sterke
C
C
Robinson
Peter
P
Renversez
Gilles
G
Maystre
Daniel
D