Fabrication and Applications of Low Loss Nonlinear Holey Fibers

Abstract

International audienceWe present the important fabrication issues involved with the realization of low loss, low water peak, nonlinear holey fibers based on the Stack and Draw technique. We have realized fibers with loss performances in the 1.38 μm spectral region that are limited by the intrinsic losses of the raw materials, opening up the possibility of using long lengths of such fibers to demonstrate phenomenon such as Raman amplification and supercontinuum generation using continuous wave pump sources