Thermo-optic effect of an index guiding photonic crystal fiber with elastomer inclusions

C. Markos; K. Vlachos; G. Kakarantzas

doi:10.1117/12.886004

17 May 2011 Thermo-optic effect of an index guiding photonic crystal fiber with elastomer inclusions

C. Markos, K. Vlachos, G. Kakarantzas

Proceedings Volume 7753, 21st International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors; 775340 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.886004
Event: 21st International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors (OFS21), 2011, Ottawa, Canada

Abstract

In this work, we demonstrate numerically and experimentally the temperature dependence of a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) infiltrated with PDMS elastomer. We investigated the guiding properties of the PDMS-filled PCF and we present the variation of the effective index and effective modal areas of the fundamental guiding mode at 633 and 1550 nm, for a range of temperatures from 20°C to 75°C. Experimental measurements have shown an up to ~6% power recovery of the bend-induced loss for a 6-cm long PDMS-filled PCF at 4 cm bend diameter.

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C. Markos, K. Vlachos, and G. Kakarantzas "Thermo-optic effect of an index guiding photonic crystal fiber with elastomer inclusions", Proc. SPIE 7753, 21st International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, 775340 (17 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.886004

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