TY - JOUR
T1 - Lotus Shaped Negative Curvature Hollow Core Fiber with 10.5 dB/km at 1550 nm Wavelength
AU - Syed Nawazuddin, Mubassira Banu
AU - Wheeler, Natalie V.
AU - Hayes, John
AU - Sandoghchi, Seyad Reza
AU - Bradley, Tom
AU - Jasion, Gregory
AU - Slavik, Radan
AU - Richardson, David J.
AU - Poletti, Francesco
PY - 2017/12/25
Y1 - 2017/12/25
N2 - We present a novel Lotus shaped negative curvature antiresonant hollow core fiber with the potential for low loss and very wide bandwidth. A minimum loss of ~10 dB/km at 1550 nm and less than 100 dB/km over a bandwidth of ~650 nm is demonstrated, with effectively single mode behaviour over lengths of a few tens of meters. We demonstrate power penalty free 10.5-Gbit/s data transmission through an 86 m length of fiber at both O and C telecom bands. The fiber macro bend sensitivity has also been tested, which is relevant for telecom as well as for other applications including beam delivery and gas based sensing. The bend loss is found to be below 0.2 dB/m for bend radii down to 8 cm at wavelengths away from the short wavelength edge of the transmission band.
AB - We present a novel Lotus shaped negative curvature antiresonant hollow core fiber with the potential for low loss and very wide bandwidth. A minimum loss of ~10 dB/km at 1550 nm and less than 100 dB/km over a bandwidth of ~650 nm is demonstrated, with effectively single mode behaviour over lengths of a few tens of meters. We demonstrate power penalty free 10.5-Gbit/s data transmission through an 86 m length of fiber at both O and C telecom bands. The fiber macro bend sensitivity has also been tested, which is relevant for telecom as well as for other applications including beam delivery and gas based sensing. The bend loss is found to be below 0.2 dB/m for bend radii down to 8 cm at wavelengths away from the short wavelength edge of the transmission band.
KW - Fiber optics communications
KW - hollow core optical fibers
KW - low latency
KW - microstructured optical fibers
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85039794934&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/JLT.2017.2787197
DO - 10.1109/JLT.2017.2787197
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85039794934
SN - 0733-8724
JO - Journal of Lightwave Technology
JF - Journal of Lightwave Technology
ER -