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Optica, Optics Express, 22(17), p. 20249, 2009

DOI: 10.1364/oe.17.020249

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Dispersion-shifted all-solid high index-contrast microstructured optical fiber for nonlinear applications at 155μm

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Abstract

We report the fabrication of an all-solid highly nonlinear microstructured optical fiber. The structured preform was made by glass extrusion using two types of commercial lead silicate glasses that provide high index-contrast. Effectively single-moded guidance was observed in the fiber at 1.55 microm. The effective nonlinearity and the propagation loss at this wavelength were measured to be 120 W(-1)km(-1) and 0.8 dB/m, respectively. Numerical simulations indicate that the fiber is dispersion-shifted with a zero-dispersion-wavelength of 1475 nm and a dispersion slope of 0.16 ps/nm(2)/km respectively at 1.55 microm. These predictions are consistent with the experimentally determined dispersion of + 12.5 ps/nm/km at 1.55 microm. Tunable and efficient four-wave-mixing based wavelength conversion was demonstrated at wavelengths around 1.55 microm using a 1.5m-length of the fiber.