A dense array of small coupled waveguides in fiber technology: trefoil channels of microstructured optical fibers

Opt Express. 2008 Dec 8;16(25):20648-55. doi: 10.1364/oe.16.020648.

Abstract

We calculate the limit to which the density of two-dimensional arrays of diffraction limited fiber waveguides can be reduced while maintaining weakly-coupled characteristics. We demonstrate that this density can be experimentally reached in an array of trefoil channels formed by the air holes of a microstructured optical fiber specially designed to meet limiting size and density specifications at lambda=1.55 microm.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Computer Simulation
  • Computer-Aided Design*
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Light
  • Miniaturization
  • Models, Theoretical*
  • Nanostructures / chemistry*
  • Nanostructures / ultrastructure*
  • Optical Fibers*
  • Scattering, Radiation