Display options
Share it on

Opt Express. 2013 Nov 18;21(23):28559-69. doi: 10.1364/OE.21.028559.

Demonstration of amplified data transmission at 2 µm in a low-loss wide bandwidth hollow core photonic bandgap fiber.

Optics express

M N Petrovich, F Poletti, J P Wooler, A M Heidt, N K Baddela, Z Li, D R Gray, R Slavík, F Parmigiani, N V Wheeler, J R Hayes, E Numkam, L Grűner-Nielsen, B Pálsdóttir, R Phelan, B Kelly, John O'Carroll, M Becker, N MacSuibhne, J Zhao, F C Garcia Gunning, A D Ellis, P Petropoulos, S U Alam, D J Richardson

PMID: 24514368 DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.028559

Abstract

The first demonstration of a hollow core photonic bandgap fiber (HC-PBGF) suitable for high-rate data transmission in the 2 µm waveband is presented. The fiber has a record low loss for this wavelength region (4.5 dB/km at 1980 nm) and a >150 nm wide surface-mode-free transmission window at the center of the bandgap. Detailed analysis of the optical modes and their propagation along the fiber, carried out using a time-of-flight technique in conjunction with spatially and spectrally resolved (S2) imaging, provides clear evidence that the HC-PBGF can be operated as quasi-single mode even though it supports up to four mode groups. Through the use of a custom built Thulium doped fiber amplifier with gain bandwidth closely matched to the fiber's low loss window, error-free 8 Gbit/s transmission in an optically amplified data channel at 2008 nm over 290 m of 19 cell HC-PBGF is reported.

Publication Types