Journal article
Hybrid polymer photonic crystal fiber with integrated chalcogenide glass nanofilms
The combination of chalcogenide glasses with polymer photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) is a difficult and challenging task due to their different thermo-mechanical material properties. Here we report the first experimental realization of a hybrid polymer-chalcogenide PCF with integrated As2S3 glass nanofilms at the inner surface of the air-channels of a poly-methyl-methacrylate (PMMA) PCF.
The integrated high refractive index glass films introduce distinct antiresonant transmission bands in the 480-900 nm wavelength region. We demonstrate that the ultra-high Kerr nonlinearity of the chalcogenide glass makes the polymer PCF nonlinear and provides a possibility to shift the transmission band edges as much as 17 nm by changing the intensity.
The proposed fabrication technique constitutes a new highway towards all-fiber nonlinear tunable devices based on polymer PCFs, which at the moment is not possible with any other fabrication method.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Pages: | 6057 |
| ISSN: | 20452322 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1038/srep06057 |
| ORCIDs: | Markos, Christos and Bang, Ole |
Air-channel All-fiber nonlinear tunable device laboratory equipment Antiresonant transmission band Arsenic sulfide 1303-33-9 Biochemistry studies - General Chemistry Equipment Apparatus Devices and Instrumentation Fabrication technique laboratory techniques Hybrid polymer photonic crystal fiber laboratory equipment Integrated chalcogenide glass nanofilm laboratory equipment Poly-methyl-methacrylate 9011-14-7 Ultra-high Kerr nonlinearity
