Fibers and planar waveguides made from dielectric materials which are periodically patterned on the scale of the optical wavelength--photonic crystals--have quite remarkable properties, requiring a complete realignment of the goal- posts in conventional guided-wave photonics. For example, photonic crystal fibers can be designed to be single-mode at every frequency, and full 2D photonic bandgaps can permit light to be guided--single mode--in a core region where the refractive index is lower than the cladding. A whole menagerie of new possibilities are presently emerging, including hollow-core single-mode optical fibers and ultra- compact micro-components formed in planar photonic crystal films.


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    Title :

    Photonic crystal fibers, waveguides, and resonators


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    18th Congress of the International Commission for Optics ; 1999 ; San Francisco,CA,USA


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1999-07-19





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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