Anti-Resonant Hollow Core Fibers

Photonic Crystal & Multicore Fibers

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Overview

Optical signal in a hollow core anti-resonant fiber propagates in an air core surrounded by single ring of anti-resonant tube elements. Guidance is based on an anti-resonance from the thin glass membranes constituted by the non-touching tubes surrounding the hollow core. The extremely low overlap of guided power with the surrounding silica, less than 2×10-5, added to the mode effective area, confers to this fibre design record material non-linearity.

 

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Highlights

Benefits & Features

  • High damage threshold
  • Nearly single mode guidance
  • Ultra low dispersion in the transmission bands

Applications

  • Low latency data transmission
  • Gas-filled AR hollow core fibre laser
  • Molecular tracing, gas detection
  • High power delivery for pico- and sub-picoseconds optical pulses

Main Specifications

Datasheet

Products

Product Specification Datasheet
IXF-ARF-40-240 Operating wavelength at 750 nm PDF More info
IXF-ARF-33-160-V1 Operating wavelength at 1064 nm PDF More info
IXF-ARF-45-240-V1 Operating wavelength at 1550 nm
Ideal for telecom application – low latency fiber
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IXF-ARF-40-230 Operating wavelength at 2000 nm PDF More info
IXF-ARF-120-400 Operating wavelength at 3000 nm PDF More info

  • Dissolved gas sensing using an anti-resonant hollow core optical fiber

    Jason Kapit and Anna P. M. Michel

    Applied Optics Vol. 60, Issue 33, pp. 10354-10358 (2021)

    https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.439787

    The sensor used consists of a 1650.9 nm distributed feedback laser (DFB) (15 mW LD-PD/Ideal Photonics) coupled to a 5 m AR-HCF (Exail IXF-ARF-45-240) using an FC/APC connector for the laser fiber and an FC/PC connector for the AR-HCF.

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  • Hollow-Core Fiber Connector

    Ryo Nagase, Hideki Kamitsuna, Ren Sasaki, and Toshiki Maejima

    26th Optoelectronics and Communications Conference OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2021), paper S4E.3

    https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OECC-2021-S4E.3

    For this study, we used Exail IXF-ARF-45-240, an HCF with an anti-resonant structure that is commercially available. We investigated the relationship between misalignment and coupling loss when connecting this fiber with a butt joint.

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