Lotus Shaped Negative Curvature Hollow Core Fiber with 10.5 dB/km at 1550 nm Wavelength

Mubassira Banu Syed Nawazuddin; Natalie V. Wheeler; John Hayes; Seyad Reza Sandoghchi; Tom Bradley; Gregory Jasion; Radan Slavik; David J. Richardson; Francesco Poletti

doi:10.1109/JLT.2017.2787197

Lotus Shaped Negative Curvature Hollow Core Fiber with 10.5 dB/km at 1550 nm Wavelength

Mubassira Banu Syed Nawazuddin, Natalie V. Wheeler, John Hayes, Seyad Reza Sandoghchi, Tom Bradley, Gregory Jasion, Radan Slavik, David J. Richardson, Francesco Poletti

Department of Physics

University of Southampton

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

36 Citations (SciVal)

Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Lightwave Technology
Early online date	25 Dec 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2017.2787197
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 25 Dec 2017

Keywords

Fiber optics communications
hollow core optical fibers
low latency
microstructured optical fibers

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Access to Document

10.1109/JLT.2017.2787197Licence: CC BY

Cite this

@article{2ea77a8a8b204dd4ab94fa371d618f26,

title = "Lotus Shaped Negative Curvature Hollow Core Fiber with 10.5 dB/km at 1550 nm Wavelength",

abstract = "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 \textasciitilde{}10 dB/km at 1550 nm and less than 100 dB/km over a bandwidth of \textasciitilde{}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.",

keywords = "Fiber optics communications, hollow core optical fibers, low latency, microstructured optical fibers",

author = "\{Syed Nawazuddin\}, \{Mubassira Banu\} and Wheeler, \{Natalie V.\} and John Hayes and Sandoghchi, \{Seyad Reza\} and Tom Bradley and Gregory Jasion and Radan Slavik and Richardson, \{David J.\} and Francesco Poletti",

year = "2017",

month = dec,

day = "25",

doi = "10.1109/JLT.2017.2787197",

language = "English",

journal = "Journal of Lightwave Technology",

issn = "0733-8724",

publisher = "IEEE",

}

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 - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85039794934

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 -

Lotus Shaped Negative Curvature Hollow Core Fiber with 10.5 dB/km at 1550 nm Wavelength

Abstract

Keywords

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this