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Electromagnetic field confined and tailored with a few air holes in a photonic-crystal fiber

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Conventional and scanning near-field optical microscopy techniques are cross referenced to femtosecond nonlinear-optical measurements and finite-element numerical simulations to visualize and analyze a strong confinement of electromagnetic radiation in guided modes of a photonic-crystal fiber with only a few air holes surrounding the fiber core. A nonlinear coefficient of about 120 W−1 km−1 is achieved at the wavelength of 670 nm for a fused-silica fiber with a full hexagonal cycle of closely packed air holes around the fiber core. The removal of a single element from this array of air holes is shown to frustrate field confinement in guided modes, leading to mode leakage.

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  1. Laboratory of Photonics and Nanostructures, LPN/CNRS, route de Nozay, 91460, Marcoussis, France

    A. M. Apetrei, J. M. Moison & J. A. Levenson

  2. Information Engineering Department, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 181/A, 43100, Parma, Italy

    M. Foroni, F. Poli, A. Cucinotta & S. Selleri

  3. Section de Physique – GAP Optique, University of Geneva, 20, rue de l’Ecole-de-Médecine, 1211, Genève, Switzerland

    M. Legré, M. Wegmüller & N. Gisin

  4. S.I. Vavilov State Optical Institute, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia

    K. V. Dukel’skii, A. V. Khokhlov, V. S. Shevandin & Yu. N. Kondrat’ev

  5. Dipartimento di Energetica, ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome, Via A. Scarpa 14, 00161, Rome, Italy

    C. Sibilia

  6. Physics Department, International Laser Center, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Vorob’evy gory, 119992, Moscow, Russia

    E. E. Serebryannikov & A. M. Zheltikov

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Apetrei, A.M., Moison, J.M., Levenson, J.A. et al. Electromagnetic field confined and tailored with a few air holes in a photonic-crystal fiber. Appl. Phys. B 81, 409–414 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-005-1855-9

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