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Crystal Fibre
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NL-1050-ZERO-2
Highly
Nonlinear
Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Fiber
• Small mode field area
• High nonlinear coefficient
• Flat near zero dispersion
Photonic crystal fibers use a microstructured cladding
region with air holes to guide light in a pure silica core,
giving rise to novel functionalities.
This highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber benefits from a
special core design to obtain a parabolic dispersion curve.
The fiber is available spliced to standard single mode fiber.
Applications
- Supercontinuum generation
- Optical parametric amplification
Typical spectral attenuation
80
Physical properties
Material
Pure Silica
Cladding diameter
127 ± 5 μm
Coating diameter
Coating material, single layer
Core diameter
245 ± 10 μm
Acrylate
Attenuation [dB/km]
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
2.3 ± 0.3 μm
0
600
800
1000
1200
Wavelength [nm]
Optical properties
Attenuation @ 1000-1100 nm
Mode field diameter @ 1064 nm
Numerical aperture @ 1064 nm
Nonlinear coefficient @ 1064 nm
< |4| ps/nm/km
< 30 dB/km
Typical dispersion
10
2.2 ± 0.5 μm
~ 0.37
~ 37 (Wkm)-1
Cut-off wavelength
< 300 nm
Splicing loss @ 980 nm
< 0.7 dB
*Total splicing loss for splicing to standard fiber via an intermediate
fiber
*
8
Dispersion [ps/nm/km]
Dispersion @ 1025-1075 nm
6
4
2
0
-2
-4
-6
-8
-10
900
950
1000
1050
1100
1150
1200
Wavelength [nm]
NL-1050-ZERO-2-100409
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Fax:
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